Local author Kevin P. Keating, who recently published his latest book, “Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych,” will be leading a six-month fiction writing workshop focused on short stories at his ...

Anyone can create stories, but not all can craft a tale that everyone wants to read. Fiction writing is associated with fantasy and imagination. People with great imaginations are capable of writing ...

In the dynamic world of writing, technology has continually played a pivotal role in shaping methodologies and tools. If you’re a budding author or even a seasoned writer, you’ll be pleased to know ...

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 ...

The best books on writing tend to be well, if not beautifully, written. But I have found that great books about writing great fiction — such as those by Eudora Welty and E Lily Yu — often contain ...

Having written nonfiction for three decades, I’m crossing borders by trying to write fiction. It’s not been an easy go. Part of the struggle is that I fear my head overshadows my heart. Most of my ...

If you would like to improve your fiction writing skills harnessing the wealth of AI tools that are currently available you might be interested in learning more from The Nerdy Novelist who has put ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

Two new books by fiction writers Elizabeth McCracken and Sue Monk Kidd offer different approaches to the craft of writing. McCracken's "A Long Game" is skeptical of cosmic inspiration, focusing ...

If your ambition is to be a fiction writer, a series of free workshops can help put you on the road to success. Vicki Salloum, a local author who has written four novels and numerous short stories, ...