If, by the end of the year, you can cross the following habits of successful authors off your checklist, you’ll be a force to reckon with in the literary world!

Chapter breaks are do-or-die territory for novelists.

When planning your scenes, even scenes where what’s said is what’s important, give your characters something to do.

Why not tap into the power of music when you need the inspiration most: while you’re writing.

The better the artist, the more varied his work.

I argue that keeping a writing-exercise journal is an ineffective, inefficient, and occasionally even detrimental habit.

When your story demands you kill a prominent character, how do you tap into the power and pathos without infuriating your readers?

This week, I decided to take a highly unscientific poll in an effort to discover the most common reasons a reader stops reading.

How do you know when to heed criticism? How do you know what’s worth listening to? You can start by asking yourself the following six questions.