Header art by Pedro Lucena.
Updates, top stories & our favorite links straight to your inbox.


Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp

By Allaya Cooks on Saturday, January 8, 2011 - View Comments

“Words!  Mere words!  How terrible they were!  How clear, and vivid, and cruel!  One could not escape from them.  And yet, what a subtle magic there was in them!  They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute.  Mere words!  Was there anything so real as words?”

From The Picture Of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

More: Briefs, Quotes

Sound Off: On Writing A Novel During Your Off-Hours

By JK Evanczuk on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - View Comments

This is what my Manhattan home office looks like. No, really.Write a Better Novel‘s Bill Henderson recently wrote about the dilemma of teaching to supplement your writing income. He received a slew of comments about struggling to write a novel during the off-hours of your day job, which he summarized in a new post that you should definitely take a look at. Real novelists sound off on the issue, and it really struck a chord with me. Writing in itself is hard enough, but having to do it when you get home from a long day of work (when you could be, say, watching TV and spending time with friends) can sometimes make writing insufferable. Some of my favorite quotes after the jump: Read more »