For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Every January, a familiar thought creeps into the minds of many: This is the year I finally write the novel. If you’ve ever tried to follow through on that promise and thought about using AI to ...

What if writing a book no longer required months of painstaking effort, late nights, and endless rewrites? Imagine crafting an entire manuscript—complete with polished prose, cohesive structure, and ...

Nov. 1 marks the start of NaNoWriMo, an annual novel-writing challenge, and participants are scrambling to hit their daily 1,667 word count goal. But this year, the organization is facing controversy ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so ...

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: What Stephen Miller gets wrong about human nature “First ...

This week’s story, “ Deal-Breaker ,” will appear in your new collection, “ This Is Not About Us ,” which comes out in February. It gathers the stories you’ve been writing about an extended family, the ...

Writing the first book is time-consuming. So, you may wonder, why should people still write one—especially if a book is not required for tenure at their institution? Many people may advise you to just ...