Every morning, after I’ve secured the intravenous drip from the coffee pot into my arm, I knock out a couple of hours of fiction writing. That’s not exactly surprising as I’m a science-fiction author ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

The creative process of writing science-inspired fiction can be rewarding — and the untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality. When Steve Caplan was a graduate student in the late 1990s, ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

I don't know about you, but when I go looking for a little bit of writing inspiration, I often find myself staring at the same Hemingway, Bradbury, and Fitzgerald quotes I've heard a dozen times ...

In K.M. Weiland’s upcoming fantasy novel Dreambreaker, readers are immersed in the world of main character, Allara — the queen of the kingdom of Lael, and possessor of the ability to travel between ...

In the dynamic world of writing, technology has continually played a pivotal role in shaping methodologies and tools. If you’re a budding author or even a seasoned writer, you’ll be pleased to know ...

Fiction writers looking for something a little more refined than the general AI writing tools that have flooded the market over the past 12 months. Might be interested in Novel Crafter. you may have ...

My desire to change how I used grades in my introductory fiction writing class came from the same place as my desire for change in first-year writing; what I was doing didn’t seem to be working as ...

Making money by writing incredibly detailed slash fiction probably seems like a fantasy. Sure, E.L. James was able to transform her Twilight fan fiction into an astoundingly lucrative pop culture ...