Occasionally, I am offered the opportunity to do an interview or give a guest lecture about being a writer and often this question will be presented: How do I handle writer’s block? It is a topic that ...

“The central, final, inescapable fact is that inspired words create life in us because they are themselves alive,” wrote English classical scholar Cecil Maurice Bowra in 1955. Did he have a point? Is ...

CHICO — Award-winning screenplay writer Lynn Elliott gets inspiration for his works from a variety of places. Elliott, who taught English at Chico State from 1972 to 2005 and served as chair of the ...

Several years ago, I was wandering through an outdoor antiques and collectibles fair, and I chanced upon an antiquarian book dealer with tables of books laid out in a tempting display. Before my ...

I have a dark and terrible confession to make, internet: I'm not that into "how-to" books. Don't get me wrong, I've most certainly delved into the occasional cookbook (before giving up and making ...

If one of your business goals for 2020 is to write more for and about your business — perhaps through blog posts and LinkedIn articles — you might be searching for inspiration or fearing the dreaded ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - As the grandson of mob boss Vito "Don Vito" Genovese, author Phil Genovese grew up with a surname in which he took little pride, but he has turned his childhood experiences ...

If you have had an idea for a novel for months or years but haven’t quite figured out how to put that idea to paper and actually write it, you are far from alone. But what you might not know is that ...