Researching Your idea

Author of The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford , Nafissa Thompson-Spires explains how murder mysteries inspired her writing. For more on this award-winning...

What's the number one quality to have in order to be a good writer? According to Marisa Meltzer, author of IT GIRL, you have to read...a lot! For more on this bestselling...

Journaling gives us a private space to vent, reflect, speculate, problem-solve, record memories, and heal. But it also holds the raw material of powerful storytelling...

Robin Furth, Stephen King's research assistant, shares what she's learned from working with the master storyteller. For more on Stephen King's library of work that Furth...

Tova Mirvis shares the true crime case that inspired her novel We Would Never , a riveting literary page-turner that maps the extremes to which a family will go in order...