I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

There’s a famous two-decade-old Paris Review interview with Haruki Murakami in which he, one of the world’s most celebrated novelists, details his daily routine. He wakes up at 4AM, works for five ...

The diagram reveals what tools authors and writers including ... Romance author Danielle Steel puts in 20-hour-long shifts when she's writing a book, typing them all out manually on a 1946 Olympia ...