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Lewis Frumkes: Cynthia Ozick is one of our finest writers. You may have read The Shawl or The Messiah of Stockholm or Cannibal Galaxy, or her newest novel, The Puttermesser [...]

The article discusses the writer's disease - writing envy, which can be amplified by social media. Writers often see their peers achieving success while they struggle, which can turn writing into a source of pain. The author offers five ways to manage this envy: reminding oneself of why they write, focusing on how far they have come, focusing on others, keeping making things, and keeping a positive comment file.

The author reflects on her 30 year-journey to completing her memoir in essays. Her memoir offers details of her life as an adopted Japanese American child. Topics discussed include how original plan about the memoir, the advice given to her by her thesis advisor Sheila about her memoir, and the challenge of understanding the nature of family and identity in completing her memoir.

The article focuses on ways for writers to blend their personal narrative with research, interviews and investigation for their memoir. Topics discussed include the importance of research to memoir according to author and professor Susan Shapiro, the use of author and journalist Amy Ettinger's expertise in journalism in developing the structure of her memoir, and the need for writers to learn about the art of constructing real life for readers.

The article offers advice to writers to break free from their own set of rules that affect their creativity. Topics discussed include the importance of having a day off from writing, the need to accept burnout from creativity, the flexibility when sources of inspiration changes, and the importance of rules in craft.

The article discusses ways to cultivate a new writing practice or reactivate a stalled routine in 2022. They include relaxing the mind and body, setting an intention, and finding the best writing environment. Also mentioned are determining a reward, co-working in a group of other writers remotely or in person, and creating accountability.

The article presents the jargons, terms and phrases that aspiring authors should learn in the modern publishing industry to increase their chances of success. Among the terms are acknowledgement, which is about the people the author wants to thank or acknowledge, advance reader's copy (ARC), blurb, backlist, and copy edits.

The article provides suggestions on how to design and conduct a successful writing workshop. Topics discussed include difference of a workshop from a class, good reasons for giving workshops, and factors to consider when deciding to charge for the workshop. It also mentions the type of workshop to present, where to present workshops, and ways of determining the topic focus.

The article discusses that procrastination is not a sign of laziness but a fear response. In the writing industry, there are four main types of procrastinators. It states that overcome procrastination writers can start by committing to a small task, set specific and realistic goals, and hold themselves accountable using tools such as accountability partners and tracking progress.

The author discusses the implications and value of sharing a book or any creative work with the subject, and goes into detail about the issue of privacy and identity protection in nonfiction writing. Topics discussed include the responsibility of a writer when it comes to writing about his subject, factors which constitute identity protection and privacy, and the concept of sharing as against an act of being self-centered.

The article offers information on the goals, habits, and routines of authors for ideal writing life. Topics discussed include views of Jean-Paul Sartre on the importance of commitment in writing; comments of novelist Rachel Weaver on needs of absolute quiet for writing; and views of author Alix Ohlin on writing when finding time.

The article discusses the notion that writers don't necessarily need personal experience with a subject to write about it effectively. It mentions examples such as Goethe's description of the Alps, Stevenson's writings on pirates, and emphasizes the importance of gathering information from libraries, newspapers, experts, and other sources to ensure factual accuracy in writing.

The article presents a suggestion for a writer to write his own life story. Topics covered include writer Jesse Stuart's way of having a college education, his teaching experience in a one-room school in Kentucky, and his success as a writer when he wrote for himself. The author acknowledges the admonition to go back and write of one's country for therein lies the material one needs.

The article offers tips on how to write writing exercises to strengthen one's craft. The suggestions mentioned include creating written prompts, participating in inspirational field trips, and creating visual cues. Moreover, it also mentions the effectiveness of the said exercises in inspiring and building one's self-awareness as well as jump-starting one's writing career.

In thsi article the author discusses the need for writers to train themselves to treat after completing the rough draft of a manuscript or clearing hurdle of submitting a piece for potential publication. Freelance writer and novelist Sarah Howery Hart teaches techniques to help writers become more productive and efficient by assessing their progress periodically.

The article discusses how writers capture ideas for writing pieces, such as books, articles and narration, that float in their minds. Topics include why ideas often come in a flash and are forgotten instantly, examples of how ideas may be generated by a remark or research, and ways on how to remember an idea, such as keeping a pen and paper while traveling and by one's bed. It also describes a way how to determine if an idea is good.

The article presents the short story "Pieces of Echo" which is the winner of the Writer's "Our Darkest Hours" short story contest and also presents an interview with the story's author Brent van Staalduinen. Topics he discusses include his inspiration to write the story, the characters and the plot and the difficulties he faced while writing the story. He also discusses his writing process and his handling revision in writing and offers advice to other short story writers.

The article offers tips to survive and grow as a freelance writer based on the experiences of the author. Topics include to know one's own interests and capabilities in order to find out the area of expertise, to know the publication in terms of style, genre of articles and audience, and to stay disciplined as a vocational writer.

In this article, the author discusses her experience of choosing food writing as a career and challenges of producing manuscripts. It discusses challenges of convincing parents prior to choose writing as a career, developing of own writing style and understanding of issues from readers point of view, and challenges associated with food writing.

The article offers brief information on several mobile apps for writers including the Brain Wave audio frequency app, the Inkflow Visual Notebook, and the Haikujam social poetry app.

The article provides an answer to the question of what is a high concept and how to write a logline when writing fiction.

The article offers information on freelancing as a wonderful option to start writing by college graduate. Topics discussed include one can write regardless of current job and make willingness to write daily; improve in value reporting and good writing; and use the library, join Twitter and avoid comparison with other writers.

The article presents the author's views about the influence of families to pursue her passion in writing. It highlights the author's willingness to accept the truth about herself with limitations to the conversation in the hierarchy of advice. It also cites the inspirational speech of the author's father when she was young.

ANY WRITER WORKING on a first novel or short-story collection wants to know how other writers get their books from the mess of papers on the desk to the front [...]

Whenever I think about writing a pantoum, I'm reminded of the colorful paper chains nearly all of us used to make when we were little kids in kindergarten. Remember? First [...]

Back in grade school, I began writing short stories as soon as I could put pen to paper. A shy, quiet child, I loved to read, and that sparked my [...]

TWELVE-YEAR-old Laurie dreaded telling her teacher that her parents would be unable to attend her parent-teacher conference. Her father's alcoholism had grown worse that year. Papers with her teacher's glowing [...]

OVER PAINTERS, writers have this advantage, that they are allowed the luxury of dreaming on paper, of going on mystery trips, philosophical binges, lost weekends of self-indulgence, all because of [...]

At 65, I was a research scientist who had written more than a million words of technical papers, reports and proposals that had yielded 30 NASA awards and several million [...]

In this article, the author discusses her experience of choosing writing as a career and challenges of producing manuscripts. It discusses challenges of convincing parents prior to choose writing as a career, developing of own writing style and understanding of issues from readers point of view, and challenges associated with food writing.

REVISION HAS AN UNDESERVED reputation of drudgery and difficulty. Every time you put a pen to paper, you are already revising--not just the visible revisions of crossing out and arrows [...]

The article presents an interview of an author Alexandra Kleeman. Kleeman mentions management of relationship between an author along with writing materials such as blank pages for administration of writing conditions by an author. She discusses maintenance of separation between public activity of being a writer and private activity related to writing conditions leads to assistance in career development as writer.

I WAS READING THE PAPER one morning when I noticed a photo of a farm boy on the business page. He was seated on a homemade wooden bench--one he had [...]

I HAVE AN erratic relationship with the news. I don't own a television and I don't subscribe to the local paper. I listen to National Public Radio while I eat [...]

'AND THAT IS ALLTHERE IS TO GOOD WRITing,' Gertrude Stein wrote, 'putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform [...]

For Gillian Roberts, finding the idea for her next mystery novel is as easy as chatting with a friend, reading the morning paper or checking out a book at the [...]

Careers for Writers and Others Who Have a Way With Words by Robert W, Bly. McGraw-Hill, Paper, $12.95, (Revised edition.) The Modern Library's Writer Workshop: A Guide to the Craft [...]

IN THE HECTIC world of commercial fiction book publishing, agents and editors can't--and won't--indulge in reading a manuscript that doesn't immediately pique their interest. With slush piles and desks stacked [...]

BY THE TIME James McBride submitted the first three chapters of his debut novel to Cindy Spiegel, his editor at Riverhead Books, he had already been on The New York [...]

WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE and read all over? It's not your daily newspaper anymore. As the dailies struggle to rebuild their dwindling subscriptions, more people--particularly the young and affluent--are turning [...]

IN 1976, NOVELIST Ron Carlson rescued a shopping bag his wife had mistakenly put on the curb as trash. It was his journal. He'd just finished the first draft of [...]

SUE MILLER WAS a struggling single mother, working as a day care provider in the early '80s, when her first short story was published in Ploughshares. The emerging writer received [...]

The genre known as science fiction and fantasy is much more than rocket ships, dystopias, and elves. This might explain why some critics and writers prefer to call it 'the [...]

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature--the great umbrella that arches over all fiction. Fantasy is also a marketing category, shelved and intermingled with science fiction, wearing scaly dragons on [...]

Like many crime writers, I came to the genre through my love of reading, and the novels that most appealed to me were those featuring private investigators. Possibly because I [...]

Have I got a story for you!' says the person I've just met. 'Tell me what you think. You can write it if you want to. Or maybe some day [...]

That would make a good story--you ought to write it!' How many times have you heard people say this, after you've told them about some interesting experience? But if you're [...]

You're sitting in the waiting room of your dentist's office thumbing through a magazine when your interest is piqued by an article titled, 'Backpacking Trails in the Sierra Nevadas.' Great! [...]

In this column, I will be emphasizing two interrelated aspects of any good poem: its music and its story. With music I associate mystery, and the transitions that give us [...]

WHEN I BEGAN WRITING ABOUT nature for young people more than twenty years ago, it was enough to recount the facts in clear, uncomplicated prose sprinkled with active verbs and [...]