Jami Attenberg, Roxane Gay, Alex Chee, and other novelists explain how to write a book. The first trick is: You have to write a 1000 words every day. The second trick is: You have to have fun.

Now that my new book, Success as a Mediator for Dummies is about to launch, mail, email, carrier pigeons and messages in bottles arrive at my door regularly, seeking "how to" advice for writing a ...

Over the course of a year, writing the first draft of a book is shockingly attainable. At 1,500 words a week—a few hours’ work—you can have a 75,000-word draft written in 50 weeks.

That agent will typically read only a small portion of your book or book proposal — say, five to 15 pages — before deciding whether you really know how to write a good book.

Whenever I mention that I write books, I'm frequently asked about my writing process and how I went about producing Connected to Goodness and Compassionate Capitalism. Related: 17 Steps to ...