Award-winning author and New Yorker writer Susan Orlean: "Writing in all its forms is the essence of human interaction. (It’s interesting how the internet, which we all believed would be the end of writing, has actually made us all write all the time. If we’re not tweeting, we’re texting, or we’re posting on Medium, or…)"

Author and essayist Sara Benincasa: "Take care of your mental, physical, and emotional health first and foremost. It’s not worth breaking your back, your mind, or your heart to write something great."

Writer and illustrator Lawrence Yeo (a.k.a. "More to That"): "Creativity is largely about accepting that we are always a work in progress and that no individual project has a definitive beginning or end. It’s the understanding that our creative potential is defined by the blending of our work to create a general trend, which we hope is progressing in the right direction."

Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow: "Blogging isn’t just a way to organize your research — it’s a way to do research for a book or essay or story or speech you don’t even know you want to write yet. It’s a way to discover what your future books and essays and stories and speeches will be about."

Prolific writer/editor/media critic Gareth Branwyn: "Tell yourself it’s your goal to craft a shitty first draft, that you LOVE shitty first drafts, that shitty first drafts are what you are all about. Amaze yourself by the impressive quality and quantity of the crap that you can generate. Bow to the Buddha of that shit! Nobody but you has to ever see these unsightly monstrosities."

Author and blogger Geraldine DeRuiter: "I’ve found that reading wonderful stuff, especially in the genres in which we’d like to write, can be incredibly inspirational. Just think of how many times you’ve read something, or listened to a song, or watched a movie, and afterwards your brain just goes into overdrive?"

A compendium of expert writing advice across a range of genres and forms: tweets, essays, books, emails, etc.

Author David Hopkins' daughter Kennedy: "Eavesdropping is rude, but bear with me. If you are at Wendy's or something, listen to strangers' conversations. That's where you can get some of the best dialogue for comedic bits."

A Random House copyeditor's curmudgeonly advice: don't use two words when one will do.

Veteran journalist and blogger Paul Cantor: "It took getting kicked out of a fancy hotel room I had no place being in anyway, finding home in a cheap rental car riding down an empty street in Los Angeles, with nothing but the sound of my own beating heart for company, to know I really had anything to say."

Novelist Amy Shearn (and me): "Don’t worry about voice or style. Just be honest. Everyone’s honesty is different, and that’s where the voice and style will come from. You’re the expert in being you. And if the reader senses you’re being honest, they will go anywhere you want to take them."

For aspiring screenwriters, here are 100 scene-writing prompts by teacher and veteran screenwriter Scott Myers.

Less advice and more of a meditation on the internet, and the loss of a type of analog writing we may never see again.

Novelist Alexander Chee: "If you create an identity out of swiftly pleasing others and focusing on their desires more than your own, and you take a vicarious pleasure in fulfilling these desires, and you experience their gratitude as validation, even derive self-esteem from this role, it is easy to imagine that this is who you are, because who you are is never the subject of your thoughts."

By me, about a book I love.