I wanted to write this article because I know how important inspiration is and I have found something missing in the materials I’ve read previously on the topic. I finished writing my own article, ...

Have you ever wondered what the top writers in the world do to motivate themselves each day? A magazine editor named Mason Currey was always fascinated with famous artists’ writing rituals and ...

The scene comes to me in the middle of the night, of course. The characters from my latest manuscript are playing in my dreams. I pull my computer onto the bed. Glowing light from the screen causes ...

The Santa Barbara County Education Office’s (SBCEO) 56th annual Author-Go-Round recently brought together more than 350 students in grades five through eight from schools across Santa Barbara County.

As a writer, I’ve been frustrated these past two months, lacking inspiration to write anything at all. So I tried a few tactics to help get me going that I want to share with you all. 1. Read, read ...

The University of Iowa is renowned for its excellent writing program, churning out countless award-winning novelists, nonfiction authors, and playwrights from the writers’ workshop. But fan fiction ...

A childhood memory inspired Northbrook resident Geoffrey Charlton-Perrin to write a young adult novel. His vivid imagination moved that incident a century in the future in “2121: The Battle for ...