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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. – Stephen King, On Writing And, ever since On Writing’s publication in 1999, we eager …
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Salman Rushdie is well known for his outspoken nature and the deadly fatwa issued in answer to his work. His novel Midnight’s Children won several awards and made it onto Modern Library’s 100 best novels list, but many are also familiar with the book that sent him into hiding, The Satanic Verses, and his riveting, third-person memoir, Joseph Anton. He’s dabbled in children’s literature, published …
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There are few serious poets, activists, and biographers who haven’t taken inspiration from the indomitable Maya Angelou. A woman of immense passion and experience, the late Angelou (author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, six other autobiographies, and several books of poetry) could have given advice on anything from journalism to dancing to cable car maintenance, but it’s her writing (and her …
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Do you ever feel like an impostor? Do you struggle to take yourself seriously? Are you uncomfortable talking about your writing or identifying yourself as a writer? Andrea Sims PhD, author of The Impostor Affect, describes this phenomenon as “the inability of high achieving people to internalize their successes or to believe that they are capable of or responsible for their own accomplishments. …
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To gaze upon the accomplishments of Caitlin Moran is to flirt with a jealously that may take a lifetime to fade. At various times awarded Columnist of the Year, Interviewer of the Year, Critic of the Year, Cultural Commentator of the Year, Writer of the Year, and Ultimate Writer of the Year, Moran has worked as a journalist, a broadcaster, and a successful writer of fiction (The Chronicles of …
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People give up and put books down for any number of reasons, but if we understand the most common causes, we can intercept them during the writing process. As writers expend all their energy actually writing the book and expend all their sleep freaking out about publication routes, it’s easy to lose sight of this one pressing question: are people going to want to read this book all the way to the …
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