writing

Ten of the Best Books for Writers

Writers love to read – and write –about writing. Here are my favourites.

Be loud and proud about your own work, and market it shamelessly

(and earn money while you sleep)

Coastal stories from a travel writer, podcaster and all-weather swimmer

Your friends don't have to be alive to give good advice. They don't even have to be real.

As the Emergency Poet, Deborah Alma drove about in an ambulance, prescribing poems to cure all ills. Now she has opened The Poetry Pharmacy.

My new habit for February: recording in a daily journal, and assessing with weekly check-ins

One of the few female directors ever to be nominated for an Oscar, Sofia Coppola talks writing, children, fashion – and why she never shouts on set

You have to let yourself do it badly, in order to do it well.

The best selling novelist on her writing routines, plotting and polishing — and how her five children inspire her

What to do on those days when you're just not in the mood for creative work