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ChatGPT can help you start a novel, but it struggles with memory, structure and long-form storytelling. Here’s why regular ...

She was among other area authors who dialed in or sat down for interviews with me to provide writing tips for National Novel Writing Month. All below authors also attended a Local Author Fair event ...

Award-winning author and CU Boulder Professor Stephen Graham Jones shares advice with writers who are reflecting on their 50,000 words from National Novel Writing Month That sigh you’re hearing—and ...

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Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

Writing is tricky. It's difficult for anyone to maintain the awkward waltz between our thoughts, our writing implements, and the words on the page. So one can only imagine the chaos that can result ...

When my husband died unexpectedly in 2001, I’d never heard of expressive writing. And you know what? It wouldn’t have mattered if I had. Three months pregnant, raising a three-year-old, and suddenly a ...

Nothing more quickly catapulted me into real life than my project to escape it. By Klara Feenstra When I first started writing my silly little novel, it was a desperate attempt to escape the demands ...