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The past decade gave us everything from viral K-pop hits and ice bucket challenges to the first photo of a black hole. The 2010s also saw many interesting moments in writing and publishing. Read 10 insights from authors’ interviews, conversations and tributes from the past decade:
The writing process is something every author finds a way to navigate. Writers & Artists: The Insider Guide to the Media regularly interviews authors about their process. Read tips from 10 established authors’ writing routines and approaches:
Many people talk about wanting to write a book “someday.” Anyone who has written a novel knows the enormous effort involved. Here are seven reasons to persevere:
These 88 inspiring quotes about writing, divided into 8 categories, offer inspiration to finish writing a novel:
Giving writing feedback is not often presented as a core step in becoming a better writer. Yet many distinguished authors were once (or still are) teachers, too. Here are 6 reasons why giving writing feedback improves your craft:
Experienced novelists know the focus and determination it takes to write a novel from start to finish. Read 8 authors’ advice on writing a book:
Why write a book? It’s a question authors are asked time and again (or more simply, ‘Why do you write?’). To celebrate World Book and Copyright Day – UNESCO’s initiative to promote reading, publishing, and access to books – we’re sharing international authors’ words on the value of writing:
This is a guest contribution by Alyssa Hollingsworth, a writing coach at Now Novel whose debut The Eleventh Trade is out this month with Macmillan in the US and HotKey in the UK.
There is no single ‘right’ approach to how to start a story in first person. That being said, there are several ways to start a story using first person point of view and hook readers from the start. Here are 8 pointers for beginning a book in first person
