"In the latest New Yorker Magazine, author Jonathan Franzen writes that a fiction author’s body of work is a mirror of that writer’s character. This does not mean that fiction writers are necessarily writing about themselves or using biographical details from their own lives. What Franzen is saying is that the choices a writer makes in inventing a story reflect his or her character. In the"
How writing fiction exposes the writer

"Life doesn’t always provide us with the opportunity to write the book we have dreamed of. A number of people in our writing community have told us that they are taking time while they are unemployed from non-writing jobs to work on their writing. We applaud them. While there is nothing good about unemployment, there is a lot to be said for using the time to"
When times get tough, the tough get…writing

"From the Bengal tiger in LIFE OF PI to Rudyard Kipling’s Shere Khan in THE JUNGLE BOOK to Tony the Tiger of Frosted Flakes fame, the tiger is among the most pre-eminent of literary (and sometimes not so literary) symbols. Poet William Blake nails the tiger’s perfect symbol-ness in “The Tyger” (1797) when he describes a creature at once awesomely beautiful and terrifying. Anything that"
The Tiger, poster child for literary symbolism