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 ...

Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to ...

What follows is reported in the mode of pure observation: the body washed and wrapped in gauze “like a small mummy”; the ...

So you have officially written a book (yay!) that is edited and ready to distribute to audiences. Before you take that momentous ...

Sonia Faleiro’s new book How I Write attempts to extract this very clarity from this haze of the creative process. The book is a series of interviews with South Asian writers who, according to ...

Journalists-turned-authors to share their advice on how to navigate the leap from article to manuscript. Here is their advice ...

The most fruitful gardens grow long before the first flower. The most rewarding parts of your book may not be within the ...

With BEING HAPPY! I spent six years full-time travelling the globe: hundreds of free talks in schools, prisons, hospitals, ...