Writing Resources

But at its core, “Pedro Páramo” is a tale of two journeys, or perhaps one journey that unfolds into two. The first is a linear one driven by a Telemachean...

Forget everything you’ve ever heard about less being more, about economy of syntax, about the read-between-the-lines profundity of wide-margined, double-spaced “spare prose.” To read a paragraph by Henry James —...

BIG IDEA: A little inspiration from his 3-year-old daughter went a long way for Paul Czajak, whose ‘Monster & Me’ series of childrens books are getting nationwide distribution next month....

Lee este artículo en español.There was probably a time when your home was brimming with bookshelves, stuffed to the gills with novels you have already read or yet plan to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD44jmeAHJY We can prob­a­bly all agree that it’s a lit­tle pre­ma­ture, but all the same, the BBC has bar­reled ahead with its list of “The 21st Century’s 12 great­est nov­els.”...

If you are going to write a sensational, news-worthy crime story into your fiction, you have a few models for how to proceed. First, there is the Gone Girl model....

Less than a lifetime ago, reputable American writers would occasionally start fistfights, sleep in ditches and even espouse Communist doctrines. Such were the prerogatives and exigencies of the artist’s existence,...

By the time Rachel Khong was finishing her latest novel, “Real Americans,” in 2022, interest in the book was so high that it sparked a 17-way bidding war between many...

Just like singing, dancing or playing an instrument, writing is a skill that can be honed and sharpened. As lonely as the task of writing is, the rate at which...

  Photographs by Joe Treleven Kate DiCamillo hardly needs an introduction. The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and Flora & Ulysses (all Candlewick; 2000, 2003, 2013)...