With the increasing role of Whatsapp, Twitter, and Instagram as our primary communication tools, one might wonder if good writing is still necessary for a leader. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a lengthy message is too much to afford. Elon Musk, one of the most iconic business visionaries, often tweets out of compulsion, resulting in regrettable events like legal tangles with the SEC. And the most powerful man on earth, Mr. Donald Trump, constantly tweets incoherent sentences with grammar mistakes.

Should you spend the money to go to that writing conference? Pay for a professional edit on your book? Invest in new computer equipment for your writing office? Risk cutting back on work hours so you can write more? Making a decision can be frightening. What if you make the wrong one and it sets you back? If you’re struggling with a decision you need to make about your writing career, it’s probably because you’ve been using only one brain. That’s right. You have more than one. And it’s time you recruit the other two into your decision-making process. It will make it a lot easier.

What is your message to the world? How are you sharing it? What do you want to be known for?

Writing nonfiction involves much more than just presenting the facts! From your opening lines to the language you use, these nonfiction writing tips will help you learn how to tell a true story in a creative way.

Saul Bellow, author of Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift, and The Adventures of Augie March, among others, died 14 years ago today. Bellow is still the only writer to have been awarded the National Book Award for Fiction three times—he also nabbed a Pulitzer, a National Medal of Arts, and of course, the Nobel Prize.

Semicolon use has lots of people confounded. Find out how to use a semicolon properly and improve your punctuation, grammar, and writing skills.

As a kid growing up in southwestern Virginia, I lived down the street from a cloistered visionary named Greg, an older boy who read books and spoke in zealous declarations. One day of summer vacation when I was 9, Greg declared that we would build a monorail. This was an era of global oil shocks and nuclear meltdowns, and Greg was of the fervent belief that the monorail might save us all. It’s true that monorails at this point did not figure prominently into the rural imagination, and certainly not mine. But I knew there was one at Disney World and so I was, for a time, all in.

Writer and artist Leanne Shapton on multi-channel storytelling, unconventional creative routines, and balancing personal and professional work.

Monotype launches the first redesign in 35 years of the world's most ubiquitous font, Helvetica.

Writing about people in your blog posts can be tricky. Should you refer to them by using "he", "she", "they" or something else? Here are some options.

It's easy to miss vital details, which is why multiple proofreaders are often needed. Here is a tragic story - a proofreading case study - of how a typo turned a celebrity chef into a cannibal.It

Rejection is painful, and there's no avoiding it as a writer. But you don't have to submit before you're ready to deal with it. Author Shana Scott explains.

We talk simply. We use normal words, and are sentences are usually quite straightforward. But put someone in front of a keyboard, and there’s no telling how complicated they can write. So muc…

Learn how to write blog posts that attract visitors month after month.

How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class.

There are ways we all use to build upon our craft methods of writing a novel. We try new things to see what works. We discard other methods that we’ve outgrown as we evolve.

Use of beta readers is widespread, but surprisingly little has been written about how writers actually use them and how they help—or if they do.

People don’t desire products. They desire feelings that products give them.

Effective copywriting is the ability to tell a compelling story in a way that evokes strong emotions within your audience and readers.

Have you ever felt unsure of your writing?

A behind-the-scenes look at how I self-published “Level up with WebAssembly” as a side-project in 4 months

Steven Pruitt has made nearly 3 million edits on Wikipedia and written 35,000 original articles -- all for free

Small wins are important steps and should be treated as such, not overlooked.

Guardian Australia has just published its first automated article but reporters fear not – you’re still needed for a while yet.

Exclusive: The Catcher in the Rye author’s son tells the Guardian estate will publish almost ‘all of what he wrote’ over next decade

Random House’s copy chief confronts three persistent, unnecessary rules about good writing.

Comedian, writer, and actor Yassir Lester on finding the rhythm that works best for you, and being comfortable with letting ideas go.

Analysis of headlines from the satirical newspaper The Onion could help you — or a computer — write humorous news headlines.

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse.

It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air! But how do you get readers to share the love for your content?

Let's be genuine again.

A recent survey by Orbit Media found that bloggers who invest more time in writing their blogs — and also write longer articles– generally have a higher number of readers and interactions. The best SEO results are booked with blogs that are approximately 2,000 words long. However, how do you keep a long read interesting? How do you make sure that your readers don’t just scroll through, or tap out when they are halfway through your article?

If you plan to self-publish your novel, the most important thing you will ever write is the cover blurb for your book. Here’s how to do it right (with examples from top authors of the 21st century).

A new artificial intelligence system is so good at composing text that the researchers behind it said they won't release it for fear of how it could be misused. Created by nonprofit AI research company OpenAI (whose backers include Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Microsoft), the text-generating system can write page-long responses to prompts, mimicking everything from fantasy prose to fake celebrity news stories and homework assignments. It builds on an earlier text-generating system the company released last year.

I think it’s intimidating to build anything. No wait. It’s fucking terrifying to build anything. Because you’re creating something that has meaning to you, and putting it out in front of the whole world to see. And analyse. And criticise. And hate. And maybe, if you’re lucky, love.