Author Marshall Fine breaks down how journalism and journalism research is great training for novel writing.

In this interview, author Alana Quintana Albertson discusses learning everything she could about tequila and mezcal while writing her new romance novel, My Fair Señor.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 28 is to write a what blank poem.

Independent historian Judith Lissauer Cromwell shares her top tips for researching historical biographies.

In this interview, author Rosie A. Point discusses the joy of writing shorter fiction with her new cozy mystery, Murder Among the Stacks.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 27 is to write a nice poem.

Erik Patterson, the author of the book on writing a dystopian novel, shares three original, anxiety-inducing dystopian writing prompts writing prompts.

In this interview, author Kayla Cottingham discusses the lesson in compromise while writing her new middle-grade horror novel, The Tale of the Vanishing Circus.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 26 is to write a meandering poem.

Award-winning author Paul Levine shares how writing plot twists on screen and in books has mirrored the plot twists in his own career.

Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, create a flash piece that feels like a still life.

In this interview, author Marshall Fine discusses how different points of view can reveal new information in his new novel, Hemlock Lane.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in November. Day 25 is to write a love and/or anti-love poem.

Author Chip Jacobs shares the events leading up to a near death experience while writing a novel during a catastrophic weather event.

In this interview, author Natasha Siegel discusses foraying into a new genre with her new historical romantic fantasy, As Many Souls As Stars.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 24 is to write a living creature poem.

Award-winning novelist Carol Van Den Hende shares how epistolary writing (or writing letters) unlocked her voice in storytelling.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 23 is to write a response poem.

In this interview, author Meg Donohue discusses the relationship between scent and memory with her new novel, The Memory Gardener.

Author Mike Maden shares his thoughts on balancing character with plot (and plot twist, it’s all about character in the end).

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 22 is to write a memory poem.

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 21 is to write a why blank poem.

Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large at Merriam-Webster, shares 10 terms from the newly updated Twelfth Edition of the Collegiate Dictionary.

In this interview, author Megan Oliver discusses how a trip to Iceland helped inspire her debut romance novel, Secret Nights and Northern Lights.