Two new books by fiction writers Elizabeth McCracken and Sue Monk Kidd offer different approaches to the craft of writing. McCracken's "A Long Game" is skeptical of cosmic inspiration, focusing ...

Lazette said someone once advised her that fiction looks deeper. “People don’t stay for the story; they stay for the characters,” she recalled. “The Descended” is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy set ...

AI fiction workflow pairs Aqua Voice dictation with Autocrit metrics, speeding drafts while benchmarking prose against genre ...