Every morning, after I’ve secured the intravenous drip from the coffee pot into my arm, I knock out a couple of hours of fiction writing. That’s not exactly surprising as I’m a science-fiction author ...

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In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

Want to be a science fiction or fantasy writer? You’d better sit down. That’s the advice from Cat Rambo, a Seattle writer with more than 200 published short stories to her credit. “I would suggest ...

Evernote is a cross-platform app that works something like a digital filing cabinet. We've talked about why so many people use it and how you should probably give it another try if you're not hooked ...

I learned how to write fiction by understanding the language of visual art. As an artist, I was trained to capture the nature of my subject by amplifying the qualities that make it distinct or ...

May Day, my first published mystery, released March 8, 2006. It took me another ten years to reveal to the world via a TEDx Talk that I’d written it as a response to my husband’s suicide. In the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Humans seem hardwired to consume and enjoy stories. Fictional stories shape the way we think, affect how we act and influence our choices ...

I’ve spent my career thinking about how to tell the truth. I worked for a decade as a press critic at the Los Angeles Times, ran think tanks that study the news media and wrote a slew of books about ...

There are tons of policy discussion websites out there, with a million different levels and types of funding. But there are painfully few that utilize one of the most effective means we humans have of ...