Every author needs a mentor. These 9 books about writing offer practical tips and honest advice to help you master your craft ...

Reading books can take you further?–?and faster?–?on your journey toward becoming a better writer. For a few dollars and a few hours of your time, you can absorb the strategies and “secret sauce” of ...

Learning to write well is an ongoing process of practice and study. And fortunately, there’s an abundance of books that cover the craft of writing. I enjoy reading them and mining them for nuggets of ...

Writers get their inspiration from all sorts of places — real life, current events, favorite books, other writers, their own imagination, and more recently: podcasts. Podcasts about writing have been ...

I'm an English professor, and I spent the first 15 years of my career trying to write like one. You might be surprised by what that's like. We don't emulate the fiction writers we most admire. We too ...

Roy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing. Clark, a senior scholar at Poynter, had already written or edited 20 books about reading, writing and language. He is perhaps ...

I’m not a lover of writing craft books. In that sense, I align with the novelist Diana Wagman, who admitted late last year in the Los Angeles Review of Books that she had never “read an entire book ...