Learn how music producer Rick Rubin’s insights about the creative process can help writers.

Pickens, a psychologist, explores roadblocks like time, work, money, fear, and isolation that commonly beset creatives.

If you stepped away from the page or screen, with only the characters and situation in your memory, how would you rewrite your scene in a new way?

Practical tips from authors about how to create names for your fictional characters.

Is this popular book worth your time? It depends on where you are in the writing process.

Learn how documenting your standard operating procedures can make it easier to format, publish, and maybe even write your book.

How visualizing your readers can help you embrace your creative power and overcome writer’s block.

Advice and encouragement from Walter Mosley for authors facing a blank page.

A review of KM Weiland's practical, action-oriented method for outlining your novel.

Is the tough love Twyla Tharp provides in The Creative Habit the push you need to get past writer’s block?

What Elizabeth Gilbert teaches us about creativity and the writing life in Big Magic.

Stephen King’s On Writing is revered among authors. But does it really teach you much about how to write?

A review of Anne Lamott’s generous and encouraging guide to writing, Bird by Bird.

Writing a book is a big undertaking. Brilliant ideas can take seconds to formulate and months of labor to bring to fruition. But once you find your path, the work of hauling yourself over the mountain of the first draft simply requires putting one foot in front of the other.

I frequently counsel writers who are stuck in the early stages of book planning because they are paralyzed by anxiety that their plot or premise has already been written before – and better – by another author. I’m here to tell you what I tell them: stop worrying because the devil is in the details.