On November 1st, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will suddenly start crouching over their laptops, keyboards, notebooks, journals and tablets as they try to destroy and rebuild ...

This article lists down the best free novel writing software for Windows 11/10. Creative writing, like novel writing, with a general word processor, can be a task. While a dedicated novel writing ...

You want to write a book, but you can’t find the time to get started? I’m not impressed. I’m going to write an entire novel in one day, sitting in a bookstore. If I can do that, then you can surely ...

“Why should I write a novel?” you ask. You should write a novel because you have a story to tell, and as no one else is you, no one else can write it. A marathon is an excellent comparison. There’s no ...

The maxim goes: Everyone's got a book in him. Every November, tens of thousands of would-be novelists set out to prove it. November is National Novel Writing Month, the 12th annual writing program ...

This story comes from Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top of the page or find it here. It's kind of a truism that ...

Ottessa Moshfegh plumbs the absurd and the profane for the few moments of clarity one experiences under great duress. Her fiction, with memorably unreliable narrators saddled with unorthodox desires, ...

National But This Year Will Probably Be Different Because You Can Just Prop Up a Mannequin Dressed Like You for Zoom Thanksgiving and Still Get Your Word Count in Month National You Made Your Word ...

Creative writing can be difficult. Writer’s block can last for months at a stretch. And as much as one may argue that a story’s idea is the main thing, the environment around which it is created plays ...