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Recently, I’ve come across a lot of people, both online and off, discussing diversity in books. What it means; who should be writing it; whose voices ought to be heard; which people should be listening. And rightly so; diversity is at the heart of storytelling. We are all different and unique, whatever our race or culture, and we can only benefit from hearing different voices; looking at different points of view; encountering different perspectives.

The following is adapted from the introduction to 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. A story is a noise in the night. You may be lying there quietly resting in the international house of…

One of my big goals for 2016 will be to move to dictation for first drafts. Monica Leonelle explains why dictation is so brilliant for writers.

1. Read like mad. But try to do it analytically – which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It’s worth…

Consider how your approach to crafting point of view will influence your story and your readers' impression of your character.

JRR Tolkien created Elvish and many other writers have made up new words and phrases. But can you really construct a whole new lexicon? Hephzibah Anderson takes a look.

Keep your text library in order, and become a well-organized writer

By Jody Hedlund, @JodyHedlund A friend came up to me at my son's basketball game last weekend and said she'd read my latest YA, An Unce...

Can you remember what you did when you started on the novel you’re working on? If you’ve finished more than one, do you have a way you like to prepare? Are they always the same or are they differen…

Robert McCrum: I'm agnostic about the benefits of creative-writing classes, but would-be fictioneers could do worse than emulate the greats

We spend hours on the web, but you wouldn't know that from reading contemporary fiction. Novelists have gone to great lengths – setting stories in the past or in remote places – to avoid dealing with the internet. Is this finally changing, asks Laura Miller

It’s been sort of a perfect storm of late in terms of triggers leading me to think very hard about writing advice, writing processes, and progress in writing. Part of it is the discussion I h…

The winner of the Costa best novel award on the surprising similarities between writing and training for an Olympic slalom

“Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.”

A series of instincts, thousands of tiny adjustments, hundreds of drafts … What is the mysterious process writers go through to get an idea on to the page?

No one taught DBC Pierre how to write, but that didn't stop him from winning the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel. In his new book—and here—he explains how you could do the same.

A very funny and easy-to-relate-to breakdown of the avergae writing day.

How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.

The steps I take and questions I ask myself in order to write a scene.

'Notiquette' - the art of giving and receiving notes - is one of the least talked about but most vital parts of every screenwriter's life. ...

Jennifer Egan and her cats Cuddles and Diamond hosted the Wall Street Journal in her study on the third floor of her Fort Greene, Brooklyn home and spoke about her writing process.

Based on my years of experience in the writing game, I’ve come up with a list of 24 essential rules for creating short stories that will engage, entertain and enthral. Feel free to use them w…