I got into librarianship kind of like how a barfly gets into tending bar: you sit in the place for hours on end, day after day, appreciating the hell out of the person on the other side of the coun…

Robert Kolker’s new book, The Vanishing Family, is available now from Doubleday, so we asked him a few questions about writer’s block, favorite books, writing practice, and more. * Who do you…

Learn to write a character's health condition authentically without letting their diagnosis define them or take over the story.

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by Dodie Smith

We often experience breakups as private deaths. The severing of an intimate relationship means giving up a vision of life together. One mourns the beloved, the shared past, and the expected future,…

Itchy Bitesized is a series of short posts about all sorts of writing issues, from inspiration and process to craft, technique and the realities of the writing life.

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And why they’re not as difficult to handle as you’d think