I have a thing for magical worlds. Every time Lucy opens that wardrobe, brushes past the musty fur coats, and walks into Narnia, I get a...

Every novelist builds a world, but if you’re writing fantasy or science fiction, worldbuilding is a bigger job—one I’m often tempted to...

Meet Captain Happen—troublemaker, narrative enabler, change agent. The novelist, essayist, and poet, Charles Baxter talks about Captain...

Conjure, enchant, shape-shift, or summon—endless possibilities exist in the world of magic. Cast a spell, fight a dragon, wave a magic...

I was floundering in the Murky Middle of my novel. You know that place—the one that happens after you’ve sent your hero off to find her...

I didn’t plan to write for kids. My first middle grade novel, Little Beast, began as a book for adults. After a few years it turned into...

Writing every day? Forget it. That’s what best-selling male writers do while their wives do everything else. Or so I thought until the...

It’s the first afternoon of the Novel Incubator Alumni Writing Retreat in Jackson, NH. From my room up in the eaves, I read over the last...

I have a muse named Charley. I call him a muse but honestly I’m not sure what he is. More than likely he’s a product of my imagination,...