The Writing Life

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Rachel Gordan on the Epistolary Relationships Maintained by the Author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

 
By Rachel Gordan  January 23, 2024
The Writing Life

A Soft Place to Land: Temim Fruchter on Conquering Self-Doubt Through Writing Fiction

By Temim Fruchter  January 16, 2024
The Writing Life

How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

By Michelle Wildgen  January 2, 2024
The Writing Life

Imposters, Insiders, and Interlopers: Amy Rowland on Writing About Rural America

By Amy Rowland  July 13, 2023
The Writing Life

Stranger Than Fiction: When Your Life Starts to Resemble Your Novel

By Sandra A. Miller  July 13, 2023
The Writing Life

On the Dangers of Teaching and Writing at the Same Time

By Christina Lynch  June 28, 2023
The Writing Life

The Most Important Formerly Homeless American Writer Needs Help

By Dan Simon  June 5, 2023
The Writing Life

“It’s Not All Over…” On Persisting in Writing and in Life

By Mark Ernest Pothier  May 3, 2023
The Writing Life

Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much… Or Not Enough?

By Tobias Carroll  April 21, 2023
The Writing Life

The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

By Blair Hurley  April 17, 2023
The Writing Life

I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

By Jeff Boyd  April 13, 2023
The Writing Life

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
The Writing Life

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

By Jane Roper  April 7, 2023
The Writing Life

Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

By Ann Napolitano  March 15, 2023
The Writing Life

Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

By Donal Ryan  February 28, 2023
The Writing Life

It Happened To Me: On Being Totally Unproductive at a Writing Residency

By Alice Robb  February 27, 2023
The Writing Life

What Makes Writing Valuable?

By William Pierce  December 16, 2022
The Writing Life

How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

By Bill Cotter  December 15, 2022
The Writing Life

Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher  December 14, 2022
The Writing Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

By Brigitta Olubas  November 15, 2022
The Writing Life

“Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

By Mary Kate Frank  November 15, 2022
The Writing Life

Full Disclosure: Meghan J. Ward on Marriage, Motherhood, and Weighing the Truth in Memoir

By Meghan J. Ward  November 11, 2022
The Writing Life

“Let That Dream Die.“ On Watching Tennis and (Actually) Becoming the Best Writer You Can Be

By Veronica Roth  November 9, 2022
The Writing Life

The Best American Novelist to Disappear (And Come Back) Twice

By Helene Atwan  November 4, 2022
The Writing Life

The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
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