Over the course of a year, writing the first draft of a book is shockingly attainable. At 1,500 words a week—a few hours’ work—you can have a 75,000-word draft written in 50 weeks.

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Whether you're writing a product user guide, a personal memoir, steamy novel or a kids' story, free yourself from book template setup hassles by using Microsoft Word. Making books in Word won't ...

Jesse Sheidlower is the world’s expert on the F word — and that’s an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

That methodical "just do it" approach to writing is what got Dalcher here, with a talked-about book, doing newspaper interviews about dystopia, and referring to countries as "markets".

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while ...

In How to Write Short, author Roy Peter Clark illustrates the value of brief, short-form writing in our technology-driven world, and shows you how to do it right.