Do yourself a favor and read these 10 pieces of advice first.

As a culture, we often fetishize the debut writer as some sort of self-arising wunderkind, someone that comes “out of nowhere” or had “splashed onto the scene” unannounced, seemingly without a pre-…

Writing is when you sit—fingertips hovering over your keyboard, cursor blinking on a fresh blank document—and open Twitter for the twenty-eighth time.

No, it will not be easy. Yes, it will be rewarding. (Eventually.)

What if instead of searching through files looking for a character profile or rifling back through chapters, all you had to do was look up? That is the just one example of the brilliance of creating a muse board.

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

I asked my team to put together a list of the best creative writing blogs on the internet. Here are the top 13 they recommend.

Free guides, podcasts and interviews about writing. Featuring Margaret Atwood, Nicci French, Tim Clare, Elizabeth Haynes, Mark Dawson, Joanna Penn and more!

Featuring short story and flash fiction writers, and editors.

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When I learned “show, don’t tell,” I thought I’d discovered a guide that would never fail me. And sure, it was good for me, in the way training wheels help in learning to ride a bike. The directive…

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

Because it's so important to take full of advantage of dialogue, let's take a look at a ten ways to write excellent dialogue.

Discover these fantastic podcasts for writing inspiration.

Tips, tricks, and hard-won lessons: from creating drafts to working with editors.

How millennial novelists are confronting the challenging of representing our text habits in fiction

The hardest part of writing a novel is the middle. Here’s how to get through it.

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. Today, our sponsor Reedsy has put together a list of the most common mistakes for rookie novelists (Want more advice from Reedsy? Check out their webcast on writing and submitting query letters!):

How to write good dialogue? Well, the rule is that your characters’ speech should always sound believable.

Lord Chesterfield called the novel “a kind of abbreviation of a Romance.” Ian McEwan described the more compact novella as “the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated, ill-shaven giant.” William…

I put up a little thread on Twitter on this subject last week. A lot of people seemed to want to hear more. So here it is. A long read I’m…

Yesterday, FSG published Susan Sontag’s Debriefing, a new collection of the writer’s short fiction. I’m always excited to read more of Sontag’s work—which is convenient, bec…

How to write a killer opening line. Why Google is not research. When to rip it up and start again. Whatever you do, just write! Lessons from acclaimed novelist and creative writing professor Colum McCann

Although I still consider myself a newbie to the world of being a professional writer, I have a reasonable number of events, signings ...

A list of the top 13 blogs & top 11 podcasts NYT bestseller Gail Carriger finds most useful as a hybrid author. Great tips!

“All suggestions can be ignored when necessary,” says the best-selling author, but ignore them at your own peril. (And put away that thesaurus.)

Is it possible to narrate a story with social media posts that are supposed to be short and sweet? Yes! Here're 20 creative social media storytelling ideas.

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Show don’t tell is common advice among writers — but what does it really mean? This thorough guide answers that question with plenty of helpful examples.