If being a writer requires such discipline, then thankfully, we can look to esteemed writers’ routines that they steadily ...

I’ve written three books, and yet writing has never come easily. I agonize over the chasm between what is in my mind and what comes through my fingers. It makes me nervous and doubtful and neurotic ...

There already seem to be two particular schools: those who compose in a flurry (i.e., in creative waves) and then stop, while others will impose a daily routine on themselves. Not everyone uses a desk ...

A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to write will die without putting a word on paper,” E.B. White said in a Paris Review interview. He chose to write in his living room, ...

Have you ever wondered what the daily life of a writer looks like? What time they wake up and what they eat for breakfast? How many words per day they write, if any? How they get sudden bursts of ...

Most of the time, when we sit down to write, we write with the expectation that we’ll eventually use some or most of the words that we produce. And whether we’re writing an email, a business proposal, ...

Mel Burke is a culture writer who recently quit her full-time job to become a novelist. To find a routine that works for her, she tried the schedules of famous writers like Maya Angelou. She liked ...