Writing process

Nina LaCour on Finding a Story in Her Own Backyard

On Long Walks, Routines, and the Strange and Wonderful Joy of Writing a Book

 
By Nina LaCour  November 16, 2023
Writing Process

Literature’s Porous Borders: Where Fiction Ends and Reality Begins

By Salar Abdoh  November 7, 2023
Historical Fiction

Inspired By the Genius Loci: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings

By Martin Goodman  October 12, 2023
Insomnia

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

By Rebecca Clarren  October 11, 2023
Parenting

Writing on Prepaid Time: Shannon Sanders on Balancing Parenthood and Publishing

By Shannon Sanders  October 4, 2023
Writing Process

“To Be A Writer, You Must Write”: How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

By Evelyn McDonnell  September 26, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Gabrielle Zevin Writes Until The Inevitable Collapse

By Literary Hub  August 9, 2023
Writing Process

William Dameron On the Tricky Art of Turning Truth Into Fiction

By William Dameron  August 7, 2023
On Craft

On the I Ching as a Writing Guide

By Heinz Insu Fenkl  February 16, 2023
Craft of Writing

Dan Kois on Youthful Nostalgia and Rediscovering the Craft of Fiction

By Erica Eisdorfer  January 17, 2023
Interview with a Poet

Sandra Simonds on Piecing Together Poetic Puzzles

By Peter Mishler  November 10, 2022
The Writing Life

The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
Fiction

Kayla Maiuri on What Writing Fiction Can Reveal About Those We Love

By Kayla Maiuri  August 10, 2022
Motherhood

Writing Into the Future: What Motherhood and Creativity Have in Common

By Alexis Schaitkin  June 29, 2022
Writing

Clare Pooley on Writerly Perseverance and Knowing When To Give Up

By Clare Pooley  June 27, 2022
On Writing

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

By Ben Okri  March 9, 2022
Writing Advice

Learning, Practice, and Repetition: Why the Act of Writing Is Work

By Jessie Greengrass  January 5, 2022
Family Stories

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

By Michelle Jana Chan  August 27, 2021
The Hub

“I’ll take my characters to bed.” Walter Dean Myers on his writing process and routines.

By Vanessa Willoughby  August 12, 2021
Thresholds

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Praise of Unconventional Writing Practices

By Thresholds   June 23, 2021
The Craft of Writing

John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

By John McPhee  May 21, 2021
Inequality

‘You’re on Your Own’: How to Write About an American Crisis

By David Hardin  February 3, 2021
The Hub

Steven Arcieri is writing one sentence per day for an entire decade—culminating in a novel.

By Walker Caplan  December 7, 2020
On Writing

Of the Ways in Which Writing is a Material Labor

By Nick Kary  October 9, 2020
The Hub

The real Literary Twitter drama this week was about . . . fonts.

By Aaron Robertson  January 29, 2020
Writer's Retreats

The Yurt at the Edge of the Sea:
A Writers’ Retreat on the California Coast

By Emily Cooke  January 21, 2020
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