As a child, I liked to lose myself in the process of weaving stories. This habit has never left me; instead, I’ve now extended my love for stories by churning out 50,000 word manuscripts and piecing ...

Anyone who cares about the craft of writing will welcome William G. Tapply's The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit, a revised and expanded edition of his 1995 classic. The ...

A conversation with bestselling writer Walter Mosley about his hard-boiled character Easy Rawlins and a life in crime writing. Walter Mosley, American novelist. He has written more than 50 books, ...

My desire to change how I used grades in my introductory fiction writing class came from the same place as my desire for change in first-year writing; what I was doing didn’t seem to be working as ...

Creative writing is unique for a few reasons. This guide addresses things unique to writing fiction. The thing/character that is battling the protagonist. The antagonist does not have to be a person, ...

Mary Anne Mohanraj will teach Writing 301, The Art of Fiction Mohanraj will be teaching The Art of Fiction: Writing Your Identity. Discussions of identity politics are often framed around questions of ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...