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It's the month of Halloween (or "October," as some like to call it), and it's time to break out the scarves, candy, pumpkin-flavored beverages, and horror novels. The horror genre gets a bad rap most ...

In a 2002 op-ed in The New York Times, best-selling author Joseph Epstein noted that “81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them — and that they should write it.” Thanks to the rise of the ...

It's no secret that most writers like to write about writing. It makes for very good procrastination on actual writing. And there's quite a bit of advice out there on how to write. But what about why ...

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I can think of a few things off the top of my head that I hope never to use: math, a fire extinguisher, Pepto Bismol, and the flotation device on the bottom of my seat cushion on an airplane. In ...