Here’s some encouraging news: You only need two of the three to succeed. All three would be fantastic, but only two are required. Every book starts with an idea. But many of these ideas will be seen ...

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

In addition to being an editor at Insider, I'm also a first-time published author. I wrote the bulk of my debut novel, "This Way Out," in just one month in 2020. My key advice is to write what you ...

One would imagine that the glamour professions of today – YouTuber, influencer, star athlete, crypto millionaire – would not include the humble old novelist. But guess what? “Writer” often storms to ...

The Sudowrite Story Engine is a tool that's designed to help you finish, finalize, or actually generate an entire novel from scratch. It uses the power of OpenAI's natural language model aAI (the same ...

Bustle’s Personal Best is a series on how to identify — and then unabashedly go after — what you truly want, by learning from people who’ve already done it. But before all that, she wrote her first ...

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 ...

Justin Torres has a decent excuse for taking 12 years to write his second book. Roughly nine years ago, the novelist was on a fellowship in France, trucking along on a draft about a young gay sex ...

Osvaldo Amador's acclaimed memoir, "To Kill a Cockroach," explores his life as a Cuban immigrant, gay man, and artist, turning grief into profound healing.