I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

There’s a famous two-decade-old Paris Review interview with Haruki Murakami in which he, one of the world’s most celebrated novelists, details his daily routine. He wakes up at 4AM, works for five ...

Here are two words that might make you swoon with longing or simmer with envy: book leave.

Jacqueline Wilson “When you start writing, it’s easy to stop ... If I had a pound for everyone who said they would ‘write a book if only they had time’, I’d be richer than Croesus ...

We probably all fell in love with short stories as children. Listening to our parents and teachers read to us aloud, we were transported to worlds far beyond our imaginations. But for most of us ...