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The author of The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, forthcoming in July, talks about the work of remembering what he's already written in his head and getting it down on paper in the lastest episode of Knopf Doubleday Writers on Writing.
Look through your desk or visit a thrift store or drugstore to find a selection of postcards. Write short missives to yourself in the voice of an imagined character, sending a dozen or so cards to your home address. Allow your reaction to receiving the postcards and the messages themselves, inspire the beginnings of a story.
Novelist David Goodwillie investigates the hazardous job of nuclear diving; Commentary ranks American writers using the MLA International Bibliography as a guide; John Green, the best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars, explains why checking a book out of a library is preferable to online piracy; and other news.
This short video, which was shot, directed, and edited by Glen Milner for the Daily Telegraph, shows Suzanne St. Albans's novel Mango and Mimosa being printed by Smith-Settle Printers in Leeds, England.
Open a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or a book from your bookshelves to any page; choose a word, and write it down. Repeat this nine times. Write a poem with ten couplets (they need not rhyme) using one of the words from your list in each couplet, without using the first person.
Critic David Ulin has a look at the just published first novel of Jack Kerouac; Roxane Gay discusses race, and the killing of Trayvon Martin; Steve Almond imagines it may not be a coincidence that psychotherapy is waning while writing programs are booming; and other news.
"Variety may be the spice of life, but brevity is its bread and butter," says Terin Izil as she explains why simple, punchy language is often the clearest way to convey a message in this fun, two-minute video animated by Sunni Brown.
RosettaBooks today released the Kindle Single Basic Training, a previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut; Agent Jonny Geller offers a manifesto for the evolving book world; Author Elissa Schappell profiles the debut book of poetry by Rebecca Lindenberg, Love, an Index; and other news.
