Despite their differences, both authors agree that writing is hard work and provide a mix of inspiration and practical ...

My friend David tells me that he’s not writing any more scholarly articles; he’s actually begun a novel. Like me, he is an academic. He teaches philosophy at a pretty good liberal-arts college on the ...

Fiction Profits Academy challenges the scam narratives by adapting how aspiring authors learn to publish and profit in modern ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

Every morning, after I’ve secured the intravenous drip from the coffee pot into my arm, I knock out a couple of hours of fiction writing. That’s not exactly surprising as I’m a science-fiction author ...

Kelly Kerney's outstanding novel Hard Red Spring spans the entire 20th century in Guatemala's history through four vivid voices. Kerney, who spent a decade writing the book, talks about the difficult ...

Editor’s note: In previous months this continuing series on writing and scholarship featured interviews with Anthony Grafton and Sam Wineburg. Not long after I graduated from college as an English ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...