Writing Resources

As Hoover has grown from an indie author with a cult following to an inescapable pop culture phenomenon, there is also, inevitably, a growing chorus of online critics who say...

Thinking about writing your own wedding vows? It's a tremendous undertaking, summing up your love, dreams, and promises to your partner in a few short minutes. Overwhelming as it can...

Have you ever dreamed of publishing your own e-book and making it big — like the best-selling authors Colleen Hoover and Andy Weir? Not everyone has such success, but plenty...

Romance writer Lucy Score tried many jobs before finding her calling. She was a yoga instructor and a bartender, a journalist and a marketer, “and I kept getting fired,” she...

I wasn’t surprised. This is what it takes to write a good book. My best writing teacher, Tom Spanbauer, taught me as much. Tom called it “Dangerous Writing”, and by...

How I Get It Done Successful women talk about managing their careers, and their lives. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Lori Barra Isabel Allende still remembers clearly how she used...

James Cameron’s The Terminator paved the way for stories featuring a machine-ruled future. In 2009, I wrote a book about James Cameron called The Futurist, in which I detailed the...

Craft is often thought of as the backbone of literature, the scientific and mathematical side of the creative process that examines an artist’s techniques. In prose, it often involves terms...

In 1940, as Adolf Hitler’s armies bombed and tanked and slaughtered their way across western Europe, the exiled German journalist Sebastian Haffner questioned whether these soldiers and their leaders “are...

Hannah Grace doesn’t have an author photo. She doesn’t do events. Neighbors in Manchester, England, don’t know that she’s written two best sellers, “Icebreaker” and “Wildfire,” nor do they know...