I appreciated your post “The Second-Book Problem,” as it describes (more accurately than I care to admit) the situation I’m in. My first book was published in September 2020. It was nonfiction. There ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation recently. What drives us to do the things we do? Why do we make the choices we make? Why do we write, and who is it for? Because if we can understand our ...

When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could ...

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Have you ever wondered what the top writers in the world do to motivate themselves each day? A magazine editor named Mason Currey was always fascinated with famous artists’ writing rituals and ...

Step into your new chapter and transform your life! Don't let your past define you. Every day is a blank slate—don't just ...

Everyone has, at some point or another in life, had some inkling of an idea that was so great he thought he might be able to make a sellable novel out of it. Many of us file this little idea away, ...

Launching from the semester’s end into summer is usually celebrated as a special kind of academic freedom, a chance to get lost in projects and flex your intellectual muscles. But what we’re hearing ...

When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could ...