US writer Carolyn Meyer was "blown away" by Taryn Everdeen's fan letter.

The routine that allows me to stay prolific

Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is to tackle the story of “the strangest British band you’ve never heard of” in his first novel for five years, Utopia Avenue. Announcing the book, which will be released next June, Mitchell quoted the maxim that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”, saying that Utopia Avenue stemmed from it.

18 quick fixes to sharpen your writing

I’m in a lot of Facebook writer groups and it sometimes surprises me what “writers” say or ask. Some make me wonder why they are in a writer’s group. Here is my compilation of all the things you can’t be if you want to be a writer.

During the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency.

There is nothing more annoying for a writer than reading a list of rules that another writer has come up with and feeling if you don’t comply with them, that somehow you are failure. It is even more annoying when you try them and they just don’t work for you. What follows are just tips. You have my permission to dismiss every single one as nonsense but I hope you’ll find at least one thing helpful here.

When considering who gives out the best writing advice in the world, the first name that pops up might not be Arnold Schwarzenegger. But a decade ago, Schwarzenegger presented his “6 Rules of Success” in a now-famous commencement speech at the University of Southern California. And these rules just might hold the key to your success as a writer.

Where do we turn for content ideas that work, move, and persuade? In short, we steal them. Here are two of the most significant idea repositories on Earth.

Use the SCRUB framework to craft powerful fantasies for your readers and customers

A syndication story five years in the making.

Why you can’t just write about whatever and should avoid the number six.

Some always outline; others never do. Some write in cafes; others don’t leave the house. Here’s a peek at the writing routines of authors on this week’s best-seller lists.

He has only been in graphic storytelling for three years, but already the Czech-born writer has produced several influential series for the biggest publishers – and his latest is set to reinvent crime noir

People see my head on a book and attach a tall body to it. The image of somebody that you have accorded status to in your mind is a large one; the Greeks always made the gods quite tall. I’m short. Shorter than you think. I threw amazingly scary parties for my little sister. She was born on 30 October and her birthdays were a hot item. I’d paint my face green, turn out the lights, make everyone get under the tablecloth...

Authors like to present our lives and our work as something glamorous. We invoke our Muses, we sip tea, we show off our vintage notebooks and typewriters and pens

Novelists have a choice: stay in and write or get out and promote.

Created for Press Play/IndieWire's "Genius Directors in Three Minutes" series: It is a well known fact that Quentin Tarantino is a self-proclaimed cinephile. But the writer/director's love for cinema is most obviously expressed through his own films. In addition to showing his characters spending a great deal of time discussing cinema, Tarantino's films are jam-packed with homages and visual references to the movies that have intrigued him throughout his life.

“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud...