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

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

Nothing more quickly catapulted me into real life than my project to escape it. By Klara Feenstra When I first started writing my silly little novel, it was a desperate attempt to escape the demands ...

Filmmaker and author of “THE SPOILS,” Colin Thompson, breaks down the hard work that follows the hard work of writing your first book. We asked Thompson to share his journey as a writer, and the ...

One would imagine that the glamour professions of today – YouTuber, influencer, star athlete, crypto millionaire – would not ...

Krysten Ritter thought she had the perfect pitch: a successful lawyer returning home to a small town scandal. A cold case disappearance. A disturbing ritual. But it was a hard sell as a TV series, the ...

Former Tufts professor and renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami returned to campus Wednesday to speak about his new life as a writer. The event was set up as a sort of public interview, with ...

When my husband died unexpectedly in 2001, I’d never heard of expressive writing. And you know what? It wouldn’t have mattered if I had. Three months pregnant, raising a three-year-old, and suddenly a ...

All stories are about transformation, even the ones that aren’t. The passage of time inevitably brings about transformations big and small, obvious and invisible. As a writer, I seek out change in my ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her latest novel, Romantic Comedy, about a woman in her 30s working for this weekly comedy sketch show. Romantic comedies can often get a bad rep ...