2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 8
For the eighth day of this 10-day Get Started Right Writing Challenge, let's return to writing. After all, what's a writing challenge without some writing?Once...
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 725
For this week's prompt, write a short poem. Of course, the poem could be short (like 10 lines or fewer), but there are many other ways to explore a short poem....
4 Things I’ve Learned About the Book Business While Publishing My Debut Novel
I’ve been a reporter at The New York Times for 15 years, and I’ve spent the last four of those years covering my favorite thing: books. (3 Ways to Fall in...
The Magic of Creating a Middle-Grade Novel
I’ve noticed that many of my friends and colleagues in the writing community broadly fall into one of two categories, both equally powerful in their skill...
“Unsharp Masking the Mind” and other poems
By: Lara Dolphin “Unsharp Masking the Mind”“Frank Oppenheimer Explores The Wave Organ”“Redeeming Yahweh”“Rogations for a Ugandan...
A day from life of Klaus Werner Swamp-Man
By: Pawel Markiewicz The marvelous winter has comewith the most tender Christmas Eve Klaus Werner Swamp-Man awaits dreamaugust Moment is...
Alafair Burke: Writing Is a Team Effort From Beginning to End
Alafair Burke is the Edgar-nominated, New York Times bestselling author of 15 novels of suspense, including The Ex, The Wife, and Find Me, and coauthor of the...
2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 7
For the seventh day of this challenge, I'm going to ask you to do something that might sound a bit repetitive, and that is to make a promise to yourself. One...