Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

When I wrote my first play "Crazy for Life," I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously. I had acted before but never written a one-person show, particularly one about my own experience living with ...

“I didn’t enjoy writing fiction or reading fiction at the time, so I was reading collections of letters by writers,” said Li, who has taught in the creative writing program since 2008. A friend ...

Writers get their inspiration from all sorts of places — real life, current events, favorite books, other writers, their own imagination, and more recently: podcasts. Podcasts about writing have been ...

Today’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Scot Young, who grew up in Raytown, Missouri before settling in Ozark County. He has been writing since his junior and high school days. Scot says he ...

August Wilson didn’t rely merely on his imagination when he set to work composing a play. The Pittsburgh native’s writing process involved immersing himself in sights, sounds and people that inspired ...

Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original. Read the essays gathered in “Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life” and you’ll be left ...