For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Want to write a novel in 2026? Or maybe 13 novels? Here's how one incredibly prolific writer gets it all done.

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Minnie Mouse and Orpheus meet at a singles mixer on an ocean liner, en route from New Zealand to England. Orpheus, who is really a man named Toby Withers wearing a game nametag, has never heard of his ...

An AI tool with the potential to replace writers comes at an insensitive time when the Writers Guild of America is protesting for job protection. Reading time 3 minutes Writers often spend weeks, ...

Krysten Ritter thought she had the perfect pitch: a successful lawyer returning home to a small town scandal. A cold case disappearance. A disturbing ritual. But it was a hard sell as a TV series, the ...

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital," which focuses on six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Harvey describes the novel as a "space pastoral ...

BISMARCK — A Fargo writer has received a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) that will help her finish her second novel. Sarah Beck received a $5,000 Artist Growth and Development ...