Having just finished a new book on body language, brain science, and how people communicate, due out in May 2014 from Harvard, I’m going to post a brief series on writing – what I’ve learned ...

6 writing apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac that will help you start writing your novel and stay inspired until it's finished ...

November is National Novel Writing Month; here's the best software to help you write 50,000 words in 30 days.

By the time I signed my contract for my first book, I had four rejected book proposals. My decade-plus of false starts put me face-to-face with a harsh reality: getting a book sold, writing a book ...

Originally an abbreviation for National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo launched in 1999 to encourage anyone to try to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. The pursuit is now global.

The notion that novelists should be solitary creators has long been deeply ingrained, but the success of three fiction-writing collectives is challenging that assumption.

Creating art requires a suspension of disbelief, a narrowing of vision to the present moment, an openness to the unexpected. So, too, with caring for a tiny human being.

Everyone has a book in them. Everyone also has a crummy inner voice telling them it's never going to happen. This episode will help shut down those distracting voices and get you started writing a ...

Write the story that you most want to read. Which, yeah, for the majority of us, means a story about a giraffe and a fireman who are best friends.