I started writing a novel one evening a week when my oldest child was a baby. I’ve just completed a big rewrite and finally feel ready to take the next steps toward getting my story out into the world ...

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

If you’re a writer, there’s a good chance you use Google Docs. Whether it’s for a book, short stories, fan fiction, professional writing, or, in my case, tech journalism, Google Docs is often the ...

We are bombarded by distractions every moment of every day. Some of them are of our own making; others are basically unavoidable. As I sat writing this story my Fitbit reminded me to get up and move, ...

If you're a writer of any kind – a blogger, a copywriter, an aspiring novelist or any other kind of word wrangler – you'll know how important your writing tools can be. In the analogue world I'll only ...

Almost any writer or content creator can benefit from using a minimal Markdown editor like Typora. It’s a simple app that you can configure in many different ways to suit the formatting you need for ...