MIXED REVIEW: David Gordon, a science writer and biologist, calls chapter writing "a wonderful and awful experience." Scientists are, by necessity, writers. Academic scientists write exams, grant ...

Considering these five issues early in the writing process can help focus and shape your manuscript, Katherine Ann Wiley ...

M ost books we read — whether textbooks, reference works, academic studies, histories, or fictional narratives — are organized into chapters. These divisions, as the scholar Nicholas Dames explains in ...

The indie writing community can be a lonely place—a wasteland of unengaged social media posts and abysmal book sales. This isolation is often compounded for indie authors of color, many of whom ...

The first chapter of a book is arguably the most important part. The author spends an extraordinary amount of time writing, rewriting, and perfecting it. The best first chapters of books set up the ...

First-year students and aspiring filmmakers. Beginner poets and published authors. Songwriters. STEM students, part-time students. Working professionals hoping to put stories to paper. English and ...

TUCSON – One Saturday morning, a mother and father take their daughter to the public library for the first time. The young girl walks around her parents to look at the librarian at the front desk, ...

George RR Martin hopes to finally publish his penultimate book in A Song of Ice and Fire next year. If he meets this deadline, The Winds of Winter will release 10 years after the last book in the ...