A writer’s job is not to photocopy reality but to transform it into a story that feels true. A writing veteran offers tips for using real life in our fiction.

How a coffee order, a stubborn imagination, and one very persistent partnership with AI built the spine of my entire fantasy world.

Should we only write what we know? Then how do we write dragons or fairies? Tari gives us some excellent and funny ideas as to how we can still win.

Jenny Hansen details the commonalities between writers and holly bushes. Did you know that there are at least six kinds of "writing holly?"

A book becomes a universe the moment a character draws breath. Learn how to utilize the Seven Forces of a book universe, and let your characters breathe.