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I was reading in a writing forum about whether it's okay to self-publish or not, and specifically, whether self-publishing will...

I was browsing around Amazon.com last night and I came across the page for Cell, Stephen King's newest novel, which...

Back around Halloween, Bill of "The Wildcat's Lair," posted his "Favorite Monster Novel Challenge." I've been promising to do this...

Speaking at the National Book Festival on October 8, 2004, Novelist Patricia Wrede was asked what advice, besides "Read, read,...

"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing...

I read an interesting discussion about whether writers read published fiction while writing works of their own over at Absolute...

I think we're all afraid of rejection on some level. That applies to those who write and those who don't....

>Via, Terence's Blog, here's the simple way to build a plot, attributed to author John D. McDonald:STEP 1: Get your...

A Kentucky teenager is arrested for making "terroristic threats" in writing, according to a report from Lexington, Kentucky's NBC affiliate...

I was a sophomore at USC (the one in South Carolina, not Southern California) when I took a fiction writing...

A novelist friend of mine recently wrote me a letter -- not an E-mail, mind you, but an actual letter...on...

Here's one of those online quizzes where the results seem to match what I'm writing...at least this time around. I...

I am often asked why I would want to even try to write a novel, much less go through the...

I'd been contemplating this for a while...and I finally took the plunge. I purchased a laptop computer so that I...