Personal narrative writing remains a cornerstone of creative expression and academic success. This guide explores six essential techniques including vivid setting establishment, foreshadowing, ...

The secret waterfall glistened and babbled while lizards lazily basked on the warm rocks, snatching juicy flies from the air with their quick tongues. Imagery is a technique that enlivens the reader's ...

Personification is when you give human characteristics to inanimate objects (e.g. a spoon or a shoe), abstract concepts (e.g. time or happiness) or natural phenomena (e.g. the weather or a tree). It ...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of travel is the time to read a good book, so it's not that surprising that vacations built entirely around books and authors are on the rise. Thanks to forces such ...

Folio Literary Management has acquired the boutique children’s agency Greenhouse Literary Agency from Coolabi Group. The deal, which Folio said reinforces its commitment to children’s and YA books, ...

I love that literary fiction so often resists easy categorization. I love that this “genre” is not, really, a genre at all. And I especially love that, as literary fiction strains against conventions, ...

Over the past century, there have been countless attempts to assemble a definitive list of essential literature. In recent decades, however, the very idea of a literary canon has become a source of ...

Author and English professor Elizabeth McCracken, published her newest book, “A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction,” on Tuesday, and will host her book launch this Thursday at the Harry Ransom Center ...

For some people, deep breathing exercises work like a charm. For others, not so much. If you fall into the latter category, you might enjoy the “five-finger breathing” technique, which adds a little ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

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Taylor Swift is known for her storytelling and poetic lyricism. Her lyrics reference novels by Daphne du Maurier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Swift's newest single, "The Fate of ...