J.T. Robertson was in plenty of suspense last summer when he submitted his work “The Memory Thieves” for a writing competition. He had no idea if he would master the novella — a form he had never ...

Two years after being laid off from her full-time job as a technical writer, fledgling novelist Sara Gruen engaged in a challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days as part of National Novel Writers ...

It's a common theme among the creatively-minded: "I'll write a novel when I retire/when my kids are in college/when I have more free time." That kind of thinking is a great way to squander writerly ...