Author Dani Shapiro quotes from the essay “Writing in the Cold: The First Ten Years” by Ted Solotaroff, in which he comments about so many talented writers disappearing. “It doesn’t appear to be a matter of talent itself,” he wrote. “Some of the most natural writers, the ones who seemed to shake their prose or [...]

For Japan’s cellphone novelists, proof of success is in the print One teenager who wrote a three-volume novel on her phone has gone on to sell more than 110,000 paperback copies, grossing more than $611,000 in sales. By Yuriko Nagano, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Tokyo Photo: “Bunny,” a 15-year-old cellphone novelist, tapped out a [...]

In his book Literature and the Brain, Professor Norman N. Holland details how we may respond so deeply in both creating and experiencing literature – novels, plays, poems, tv and movies – and the neuropsychology underlying our often intense engagement with stories and characters. See a video below. He writes of one iconic film: “The [...]

Her first book, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, has sold more than a million copies in ten languages. In an interview, Natalie Goldberg talked about writing to access your energy and creative intuition : A writing practice is simply picking up a pen — a fast-writing pen, preferably, since the mind is [...]