20 years after 'Moneyball,' the genre has been drained of its significance—and there's an important culprit to blame.

Hang around the #WritingCommunity hashtag on Twitter long enough and you will run into many, many people who claim to be “aspiring writers”. They are lying. There is no such thing as an aspiring writer. Many of them will claim that they are aspiring writers because they have not sold any of their writing.

Superb lesson in how and why to write in plain language. How to get facts across and also how to paint a picture for your readers.

In the first of this two-part series, the author explores the importance of developing the writing skillset that will serve you in the future.

OK, the title of this post is perhaps a little silly and I am stating the obvious. There cannot be a writer out there who does not love books, but I am open to comments if you can prove me wrong.

How do you quantify something like that?

In destruction there will also be creation, as new opportunities take shape, and our society as a whole reaps the benefits of higher media quality and productivity.

It is a strange feeling to be both compelled to do something and repelled in the doing of that same thing. What relief to discover that other writers, published ones yet, felt the same way!

Eli Cranor tells us about "that look" that writers get sometimes.

“The Italian Lesson,” to be published on Substack over the next year, follows an American expat who finds love in Tuscany. And there’s no mention of Donald J. Trump.

The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.

The Hollywood writers’ strike continues, and with each day more people in the film industry lend their voices to the call to reach a reasonable settlement. Just yesterday we reported on The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman hitting the picket lines and laying into the practice of mini-rooms, where writers are brought in for a few weeks to outline and script a series before being shut out of the rest of the production process.

Stacey Abrams talked to TIME about the role fiction has played in her life, voting rights and whether she will run for office again.

Chatbots, surveillance, climate crisis … reality bites

Humans are natural storytellers. Since the very beginning of time, humans have created and passed down stories from generation to generation. 

Want to become a better writer? Learn how to edit your own writing. Mary Karr shows us how to edit and make our writing more vivid and dramatic ...

Some opinions (both good and bad) to help you figure out how to hone your craft and tell your stories.

Writing a book isn't easy when you have a full-time job. But it isn't impossible. Here are 5 ways to finally write your book while working.

You might be tempted to boss yourself into writing. But, it turns out, subterfuge is equally effective—and definitely way more fun. Try it out and see what happens to your writing. Then, you can get on with enjoying the rest of your life.

Author Nick Martell breaks down the challenges of writing fantasy fiction and offers five tips for writing a fantasy trilogy.