Last summer I found myself sitting in front of a blank document on my computer. I had a cup of decaf by my side and was taking desultory bites of huevos rancheros. I had been sitting there for a ...

The habit consists of the cue, routine and reward. If you have a highly structured life, it’s relatively easy to develop even such a monster discipline like a writing habit. Stephen King, for example, ...

Writing a book is a high-ranking bucket list goal for many people. One of the reasons that this goal tends to stay on our bucket lists for far too long is that we’re out of practice in the art of ...

Early in the pandemic, when we all went home to work and teach, I started looking for ways to ward off the gloom of isolation. The idea I settled on was simple: Ground myself in routine by organizing ...

If you want to become a writer, you have to write. This is a universal truth that most people understand in theory but fail to understand deeply through practice. Just about anyone on the planet can ...

Bringing her new memoir, “Uphill,” to the the Festival of Books, Jemele Hill visited the Los Angeles Times photo and video studio to answer very important questions. Her writing habit? Very relatable.

If you’ve thought about starting a journal anytime since the start of the pandemic, you’re not alone. When Austin’s BookPeople reopened in August, notebooks were a top seller, according to Cassie ...