The Writing Life

How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Finding Balance Between Drive and Acceptance

 
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya  March 19, 2025
The Writing Life

“Never Boring, Never Easy.” How the Writing Life Goes on Amid the Chaos of Publishing

By Xhenet Aliu  March 18, 2025
The Writing Life

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

By Will Rees  March 12, 2025
The Writing Life

How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 5, 2025
The Writing Life

Why I Spent Part of My Advance Money to See Adele Live

By Jinwoo Chong  March 4, 2025
The Writing Life

Yes, I’ve Been Selling My Book
on Dating Apps

By Chloé Caldwell  February 10, 2025
The Writing Life

Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in The Shining

By Maggie Su  January 27, 2025
The Writing Life

Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

By Abigail Thomas  November 21, 2024
The Writing Life

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

By Bryan VanDyke  November 18, 2024
The Writing Life

Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”

By Elif Shafak  October 22, 2024
The Writing Life

Text to Speech Troubles: Why Writers Don’t Always Make the Best Speakers

By Kate Greathead  October 10, 2024
The Writing Life

On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

By Steve Wasserman  October 7, 2024
The Writing Life

I’ve Finished My Manuscript, Now What? On Dealing With Post-Book Blues

By Lance Richardson  September 23, 2024
The Writing Life

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
The Writing Life

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

By Sofia Samatar  August 14, 2024
The Writing Life

The Art of Giving Up (and Starting Over) as a Novelist

By Kat Tang  August 7, 2024
The Writing Life

Envy, Obsession, and Instagram: On My Mental Breakdown at an Esteemed Writing Conference

By Brittany Ackerman  July 12, 2024
The Writing Life

A Room of One’s Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft

By Ben Shattuck  July 9, 2024
The Writing Life

Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

By Anna Dorn  May 17, 2024
The Writing Life

The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

By Justin Taylor  April 23, 2024
The Writing Life

How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

By Steve Almond  April 15, 2024
The Writing Life

Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

By Dennis Tang  April 11, 2024
The Writing Life

100 Tips That May (or May Not) Improve Your Next Novel

By Ryan Chapman  April 2, 2024
The Writing Life

Finding a Writing Life of
One’s Own

By Seema Reza  February 20, 2024
The Writing Life

Write While Lying Down: On Finding Rest in Creative Labor

By Holly Haworth  February 15, 2024
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