Getting up early is a real chore for many–especially when it doesn’t come naturally. Set your alarm earlier, and you may be surprised at how easily pen meets page. I am somewhat obsessed with what the ...
Contrary to our romanticized notions, writers don’t just sit around all day, drink coffee and Scotch, and wait for inspiration to strike. Like any other job, they have to be disciplined and productive ...
Anyone who has attempted to write a story knows it's a mysterious process. Sometimes the words flow freely, as if the writer is taking dictation. Other days, the words just aren't there. This is ...
Nearly 47 years ago, in July 1970, The Atlantic published “Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers”—a devastating, and at times wickedly funny, takedown of a huge mail-order correspondence school called ...
It's a delicious premise for a novel: What happens when a struggling New York con man, on the run from the mob, is mistaken for a famous but reclusive author and takes his place as a visiting writer ...
The 2000 movie Almost Famous was a massive success, and though its director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe was already known for creating excellent films, Almost Famous is widely considered to be his ...
Books about famed writers, or collections of conversations with them, are always seductive to writers. How open will this famous person be? What heretofore hidden thoughts or behaviors are going to be ...
Vera Nabokov, as far as I know, has not yet been transformed into the heroine of a novel. But it's only a matter of time. The demand for fiction cast in the template of “the creative person's wife” ...
Writers have been slagging each other off for centuries, and this fun interactive infographic courtesy of the Huffington Post is a good primer on just how ugly it can get. Unlike modern celebrity ...
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