For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

If you have an idea for a book need a little help to get you going it might be worth turning to AI to help you flesh out your idea. Using AI, specifically ChatGPT-4, to write a book can be a highly ...

LAKE TAHOE ” The Lake Tahoe Community College Library invites the public to an evening hosted by local author Todd Borg. Borg will present “The Hook, the Twist, and the Cliffhanger: How to Write What ...

The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar ‘stick to what you know’ nostrums Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so ...

EVERYONE HAS a book inside them, or so the saying goes. In this day and age, those who want help coaxing the story out can receive instruction online from some of the world’s most popular authors. Lee ...