Writing procrastination is often caused by unhelpful attitudes toward the task at hand. Here are some ways to identify and change these attitudes.

In just five years, rapper Tupac Shakur produced more than 700 songs. By 35, inventor Thomas Edison had more than 100 patents to his name. In his lifetime, author Isaac Asimov wrote nearly 500 books. Each of these creators was prolific. And each produced some incredibly high-quality work.

The modern writing world is very much a blessing and a curse. 

OpenAI today published the final model in its staged release for GPT-2, the spooky text generator the AI community’s been talking about all year. GPT-2 uses machine learning to generate novel text based on a limited input.

Computer-generated writing will never replace the human kind

Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, has...

In November, around 100 coders and creative writers are expected to take the National Novel Generation Month challenge, generating 50,000-word novels via articifical intelligence.

Every now and then I encounter people who can’t suspend disbelief. They ask how I can write about ‘such terrible things’

At an anti-library closure protest, local magician and comics legend Alan Moore had some surprising words for those who hope to break into the wide world of published writing.

The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.

It’s never your reader’s responsibility to understand you

A crop of publishers offers would-be authors very low or no advances, and may ask them to forgo royalties or sign nondisclosure agreements.

Text-generating AI is getting better and better — but it’s not yet contest-winning good.

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

How predictive-text technology could transform the future of the written word.

Work, patience, and a lot of income streams. You can do it. The trick question is: are you sure you want to?

For writing a lot and getting paid well.

And how I have developed mine

Careful is the enemy of extraordinary.

Yes, you have to do it. No, it’s not as scary as you think.