Writing

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…

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.

Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts.

The author of Testament, which won the Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award 2019, shares the story of her creative journey

For their series The Director's Chair, Studio Binder pulls together interviews with notable filmmakers to shine some light on how they make their films. In the latest installment, Wes Anderson explains how he writes and

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?

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…

When I was in graduate school for my MFA, I had lunch with my friend John, who was studying industrial psychology across campus. He was telling me how he liked writing, but he had a real block beca…

Seven things to help you move forward even when you need to know how to write a book when you have no idea what you're doing.

Sean Willson is a software engineering manager with a weakness for science fiction. In a previous blog post, the author of six books shared how he finds time to write despite having a full-time job and family. Today, Sean explains how he manages his writing process (almost) exclusively in Ulysses.