Writers on Writing

A second chance

And it was horrible, so I wrote another one…and another.

Crafting a sports story on a tight deadline

Parlez-vous Francais? Well, I don’t, so knock it off.

Some mornings you wake up with the itch to write and the words just appear on the page like invisible ink revealing itself.

Being a writer sounds fantastic. Writers are supposed to be so intelligent, educated, informed, and well-spoken.

Yes, I know it takes discipline. But what is the regimen that helps cultivate the necessary discipline?

One of the greatest challenges to writing is the first step

Seven tips to help complete a project

I Don’t Always Write (and that’s okay)

A personal essay

A simple exercise that leverages the urgency of a buzzer-beater deadline to help you get a flurry of words into the processor, leaving…

Writing fiction and finding myself, or is it the other way round?

The process is what matters.

Overcoming the resistance that is the writer’s block

How getting your thoughts down on paper can help you discover your personal ideology

Don’t take writing advice as gospel

A food blogger’s journey to publication

Things to remember when the end of your writing project is finally in sight.

Young adult author Lila Perl on rejection, ‘Peyton Place,’ and growing as a writer

To think, understand, love

I write to remember and I write to forget.

What I learned from two New York Times bestselling authors about the creative process of writing

Traditional versus Original

Why this novelist can’t resist short stories