From the daily newsletter: The hardest part of any job is starting, a maxim that might feel especially true to writers. A new book offers some goofy, avant-garde exercises to help get going.

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more…

From the daily newsletter: The hardest part of any job is starting, a maxim that might feel especially true to writers. A new book offers some goofy, avant-garde exercises to help…