In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London
Freedom and other software help scribes like Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers control their compulsive Web browsing
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Avoid these 5 writing mistakes when you write your first novel. Don't wait—read the blog post and start writing with confidence!
The gothic novel is a living tradition, a form that enjoys great popular appeal while provoking harsh critical judgments. It began with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1765), then traveled through Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Brockden…
“The standing apology for women who become writers without any special qualification is that society shuts them out from other spheres of occupation. Society is a very culpable entity, and has to answer for the manufacture of many unwholesome commodities, from bad pickles to bad poetry."
. I’ve been a PC user since the beginning of time. When I started hearing ecstatic references to a Mac program for writers called Scrivener several years ago, I was a bit envious, but I didn’t think much about it. I’d been searching for the ultimate writing software program for years (preferably the one that…
Writing Prompts for Fictional Novelists
There are many reasons why journalists make great novelists. Although these skills seem different, they also have many similarities.
Many novelists are purists. They only want to write fiction. They don’t realize that their writing careers would benefit from writing nonfiction. Crossing over to nonfiction—even for one book—benefits a fiction author by: Making you an expert. Providing more ways to build platform. Landing you more speaking engagements. Making it possible to sell more books.
This a collection of quotes of the best female authors of all time, many of whom wrote best-selling books that are still considered classics today including, Gertrude Stein, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie, Maya Angelou, Flannery O’Connor,
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Authors, What are your tools of success? I've noticed that tools make a big difference in my life as a novelist. For me, these days, I need a working computer, plenty of ways to get inspired, and quiet time to write. I also need and have supportive people around me who can give me useful feedback, hugs, and high fives when I need them.
We pulled up to the gate at Utah’s Arches National Park in an imprudent touring vehicle: a loaded U-Haul van. This would be our only sightseeing detour on the trek that would take my sister from he…
The following was given as the keynote speech at The Muse and The Marketplace event on May 3rd in Boston. A year or so ago as Visiting Professor to Williams College in Massachusetts I taught…
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If Nabokov’s memoir catalyzed Lolita, who knows what memoir writing can do for Gary Shteyngart and Tom Robbins.
The ability to write a short story, and write it well, is invaluable to any author. Novelists in particular can benefit from regularly immersing themselves in short…
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Middle school ELA teacher Laura Bradley describes how the National Novel Writing Month Project turned her eighth-graders into motivated, inspired novelists.
