I know this writer who gets up at 4 a.m. and runs five miles then locks himself in his office and writes for six hours everyday. He keeps himself in there and his kids aren’t allowed to bother him too ...

When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...

I’m a writer. You’re not. At least, that’s what I’d like to think, or used to think. I’ve always held the belief that artists are born that way. They’re born writers, painters, sculptors, composers, ...

When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...

Any aspiring writers out there in GottaBeMobile land? DailyWritingTips, a blog I thoroughly enjoy, has some really good tips for keeping a writers notebook, which is an essential tool for collecting ...