ChatGPT can help you start a novel, but it struggles with memory, structure and long-form storytelling. Here’s why regular ...

Here’s some encouraging news: You only need two of the three to succeed. All three would be fantastic, but only two are required. Every book starts with an idea. But many of these ideas will be seen ...

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Nov. 1 marks the start of NaNoWriMo, an annual novel-writing challenge, and participants are scrambling to hit their daily 1,667 word count goal. But this year, the organization is facing controversy ...

Now that my new memoir is out in the world, I’ve been binging craft books in an attempt to teach myself how I might write a novel. It’s frequently proven to be little more than an elaborate way to ...

I’ve never given birth before, but... ... after I “gave birth to” my first book, I said, “Oh heck no, this shop is closed for business for a while” in the ...