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Being a writer is not easy. All those words you have to write. Then they have to make sense.

How Writing Caused A Toilet Paper Shortage (Tolkien was right) JRR Tolkien, a guy who wrote a book a long time ago, famously wrote: “If more of us valued foo...

GTA V. The Sims 4. The Witcher 3. I am going to hope you know what those things are and move on. I’m fairly certain there is a book review

Everyone’s favorite satirist, playwright, and, uh…epigram-er…was Irish. And he wrote a blistering critique of the Anglo-American

St. Patty’s Day is among us. Get out the bagpipes. Start river dancing. And wonder why if they can turn the river green for one day, why can

Most authors, from those who post short poems on Instagram, to those who stow away their pieces for no one to see, to the many in between

I have a bone to pick with the literary community. To those who identify themselves as readers. Who take photos of their favorite books

We all thought memes were “just jokes.” Well, here are some memes that make solid points about some of the most important works

I was talking to my buddy the other day and he brought up how he would allow kids to write with their music on. He is a teacher.

As the rest of literature talks of bestsellers and other recent news, I want to talk about a book from a hundred years ago.

Tupac’s wisdom is the basis of Angie Thomas’ powerhouse of a young adult novel, The Hate U Give—that hate is insipient, that directing it to

Have you heard, your favorite author left Facebook? “But Stephen King is not my favorite!” Way to miss the point, wise guy.

At a Bennington Writing Seminars panel, I once heard author Josh Weil joke that he’d never made his agent a cent because he wrote novellas.

When I’m in love, I don’t want to write stories about love. I’m scared that admitting it out loud will be the force that slashes it in half.

Darcy and Elizabeth. Romeo and Juliet. Cathy and Heathcliff. Jane and Rochester. These famous literary couples get all the attention,

I hate Valentine’s Day. The wordsmith in me can’t stand the loved filled, red holiday. You know the part of me that talks of dead writers,

He’s a whiny, scrawny adolescent. He has anger issues. He’s “the Chosen One.” And yet, Harry Potter just might be the best character

The phrase “writing is rewriting” has been uttered by the lips of a multitude of writers. Nonwriters do not know this.