How To Find The Story In Your Non-fiction Project - An author drops books into a cauldron, the best version emerging in a cloud.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

How To Find The Story In Your Nonfiction Project

Is there such a thing as actual nonfiction? In short, yes, but it almost always comes in the form of graphs, bone-dry reports, and scientific studies where the authors deliberately fight against a sense of narrative in favor of pure fact. Everything else – diaries, memoirs, historical writing – has a dash of narrative in

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Why You Should Finish Your First Draft As Quickly As Possible - A writer runs past a line of pages, dragging a pen across them.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Why You Should Finish Your First Draft As Quickly As Possible

If there’s one writer who’s (thankfully) incapable of shutting up about the writing process, it’s beloved American horror icon Stephen King. In his fantastic and much-quoted On Writing, he says, The first draft of a book – even a long one – should take no more than three months, the length of a season. –

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Another 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore - An author reads a book, a question mark filling her thought bubble.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

Another 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore

For a while now, we’ve been putting overly rigid writing advice under the microscope with 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore and 3 (More) Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore. Today, we’re back in the lab, examining more absolutes to see if they belong in your writing. Myth #7: Write what you

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Why Appreciating Your Theme Will Improve Your Writing - A Batman-esque character flies through the air, singing their own theme song.
Writing
Robert Wood

Why Appreciating Your Theme Will Improve Your Writing

Theme is one of the first aspects of literary critique that we learn about in school and one of the first things we forget when it comes to improving our work. It’s an odd dichotomy so ingrained that many authors will proudly declare that they have no idea what themes are at play in their

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