‘A long game’ review: Novel ideas about how to write

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...
The New York Times

I Tried to Avoid Administrative Work. Writing a Novel Was a Poor Way to Do So.

Nothing more quickly catapulted me into real life than my project to escape it. By Klara Feenstra When I first started writing my silly little novel, it was a desperate attempt to escape the demands ...
The Atlantic

When You Need a Little Nudge to Write

I recently left my legal career of nearly 12 years to pursue my writing. Things began decently enough, but slowly backslid into a general apathy and laziness that I can’t seem to snap out of. Without ...
SlashGear

Want To Write The Next Great American Novel? Here's The Software You Need

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

Over the years, I’ve published a couple of series supporting teachers who were interested in writing education books. I’ve written or edited 13 education-related books. Now that I’ve retired, I’m ...
The Daytona Beach News-Journal

Want to write a novel? National Novel Writing Month celebrates 25th anniversary

On November 1st, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will suddenly start crouching over their laptops, keyboards, notebooks, journals and tablets as they try to destroy and rebuild ...