If you’ve never read a Patterson book, its unconventional structure might take you by surprise. For example: although there’s no “right” way to write a chapter, most readers expect a word count of ...

Writers and authors interested in learning more about how they can use large language models and artificial intelligence to enhance their writing skills. Might be interested in this new video on how ...

My new book arrived on my doorstep today: “Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay.” If you are counting, that makes 21 books with my name on the cover as editor or author. But it is only with ...

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

Some advice — helpful and otherwise — on the literary life, from living authors and Aristotle. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Noor Qasim Writing a novel is daunting. Where to begin? And then how ...

James Patterson, author of thrillers like Along Came a Spider (1993), Kiss the Girls (1995) and the 2006 to 2020 Alex Cross series (all published by Little, Brown and Company), has sold more than 300 ...

“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human. By Jennifer Szalai When ...