Not every book can be a thriller or a heartbreaker. But yours can. It is a superb way to stand out from the crowd – to produce a book that stands head and shoulders above other books in your field. Keep them reading, pull at their emotions, and your book is more likely to make its point.

Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.

You might be tempted to boss yourself into writing. But, it turns out, subterfuge is equally effective—and definitely way more fun. Try it out and see what happens to your writing. Then, you can get on with enjoying the rest of your life.

Author Nick Martell breaks down the challenges of writing fantasy fiction and offers five tips for writing a fantasy trilogy.

In almost any story, the villain plays just as vital a role as the hero. The antagonist is often the primary reason why the hero’s story is even worth telling. Without the villain, good has nothing to triumph over, nothing challenges the protagonist, and everyone just goes about their average lives.

Internal conflict draws readers in because it’s a type of struggle common to us all. It really takes center stage at the story level.

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.

We writers are peculiar people. Here are 24 unorthodox ways to tell if you, too, might be a writer.

Richard B Woodward, who has known McCarthy for 30 years, on the reclusive author’s love of scientific thinking, and why he will publish two novels in two months after a 16-year wait

Thoughts on Alex Perez, Hobart magazine, and the price of literary citizenship #writingcommunity

That there are few absolutes in writing is why a case can be made for just about any word on a list of the proscribed. But one must draw the line somewhere.

Want to communicate with Canadians? Here are the top 10 tips to write for a Canadian audience.English is not just one language. There are many versions and dialects. In particular, people around t

What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life—an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily #writingcommunity

This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process.

His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.

Growing up, thriller author Megan Miranda spent time at her grandparent's house in the Poconos. There wasn't any cell service — it was just her and her family out there in the woods, cut off from society. "During the day, it would be this grand adventure," recalls Miranda. "But at night I would just stare out into the darkness thinking, 'what is out there?' "

Medium was supposed to elevate writers and ideas. What happened? #writingcommunity #writers

Writing looks easy because it uses the same symbols of speech. And everyone who was taught the alphabet and basic sentence structures can produce something similar to writing when it’s not. #writingcommunity

Authors say readers are exploiting Amazon's seven-day return policy by using Amazon like a library and returning books after reading them.