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 ...

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

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 ...

I was speaking to writers last week and an interesting topic came up – the misconceptions about fiction writers and writing fiction. “Everyone thinks I am a teacher,” Muthoni wa Gichuru said. I think ...

For the sci-fi nerds, Robert A. Heinlein needs no introduction. He was one of the Big Three English sci-fi writers of the 20th century, alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.