Jami Attenberg, Roxane Gay, Alex Chee, and other novelists explain how to write a book. The first trick is: You have to write a 1000 words every day. The second trick is: You have to have fun.

I can’t tell you how many writers come to me believing they had a specific book to write and eventually learn that they were wrong—happily in the end.

1. Carve out some time to write, and then start writing. Now, I bet a lot of you out there have said to yourselves, I'm gonna write my book someday. "And someday tends not to happen in life," says ...

Academia. Writing an Academic Book, Part I: How to Decide Whether You Should Write a Book in the First Place Part I in a series of posts about how to write an academic book and get it published.

Source: By Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936; Gleeson, Joseph M. (Public Domain)/Wikimedia Commons Many people want to write a book, but don’t know how it’s done or where to begin. They worry that ...

Before you write the first words, create a plan for who the book will serve, how it will reach this audience and how you'll produce it. This will save you a lot of time down the road.

The key to getting your book written, says Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter, isn’t talent or luck or inspiration. It’s the act of sitting down every day and writing.

It's time to write a book. Yes, you read that right. I'm talking about you writing a book. You're an entrepreneur and your message can help people all over the world in different ways — from how ...

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His most recent book is Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience. He writes a Substack column called A General Education and can be found here on LinkedIn.

In March 2017, Anthony Bourdain had an idea for a book, but no time to write it. Since he started traveling and eating on camera with the Food Network’s “A Cook’s Tour” in 2000, the chef ...

Writing a business book may not be a sure-fire way to make money, but that’s not the only reason authors write books. A whopping 90% of authors reported non-monetary benefits.