When most people think about developing a writing habit, they imagine having to spend countless hours in a quiet room isolated from the…

I love my typewriter. You can write stories without having to wait for your computer to boot, you cannot be distracted by some kind of notification or the urge to check your favorite online place every half an hour.

Horizontal rhythm mostly impacts the legibility, while vertical rhythm impacts the readability of the text and establishes a sense of visual hierarchy.

In the 2018 New Statesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture, Elif Shafak explains why – in a world ruled by fear and division – novelists no longer have the luxury of being apolitical.

Someone asked me why I have a blog. I do it because writing a blog helps me to express my thoughts in front of the world. Blogging helps me to stay up to date on current events about because I have to do research for my articles. It also helps me to learn new things. I have always liked learning and in fact I have attended 2 online colleges and the University at Buffalo on Main Street, Buffalo in my 60s.

It’s not surprising, perhaps, that Emil Cioran isn’t much read in England. Born in Romania, but winning a scholarship to the University of Berlin in 1933.

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You’ve been creating, making, doing and stressing, and STILL, the traction isn’t there. What is traction? Traction is when increasingly more people engage with your creative work.

A new program can produce 20,000 lines of ad copy a second. But is it any good?

Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels.

Creativity is the ability to imagine something that isn’t there — yet. Its core ingredient are ideas. An idea is a new thought that springs up from existing knowledge. Thoughts collide — something “clicks” in our mind.

And how I identify and correct it.

The author Laura van den Berg on what inspired her newest novel, "The Third Hotel," and how she accesses the part of the mind that fiction comes from.

The playwright drew on his own experiences and astute observations to transform American comedy with work including The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park.

Over the last few weeks, the phrase, “I haven’t found my voice” has been echoing in my head. I believe this young man wants to share his ideas badly but there is something getting in his way. He is not alone. There are thousands of people out there who want and deserve to be heard. Once I realized this, I began to ask myself, how does one find his or her voice?

What is voice and tone in writing? Why should you even care? Does it REALLY matter? Yes, yes it does. Here's why your voice and tone is so important.

I went to school for Marketing. I took a slew of interesting classes like Market Research, Advertising, and even Consumer Behavior during my time at Messiah College, but none for writing. It was fun to learn about, I guess, but after school I made the decision to write instead.

In an era of illiterate racist YouTube comments, to worry about semicolons seeming overly sophisticated would be splitting a hair that no longer exists.

How does this make sense? The Washington Post has its own actual newspaper. It’s not my fault that print media is growing more obsolete every day. I wish it wasn’t because I like newspapers, but that’s technology. Not only do they have their own publishing arm, but they have their own website. A website which only lets you see a couple stories a month before you have to pay to look at them.

Isn’t there enough art in the world already? Why would I need to create yet more content? How can I stay motivated if there are thousands of people out there who make amazing art; who provide a bri…

Little professionalism "leaks" in content are errors that undermine the content's authority, squander audience interest, and detract from business goals.

Alfred Brendel’s essays about Beethoven, Schubert, and many others are deeply relevant to performers and amateur listeners alike.

2018's comprehensive guide all successful bloggers want to keep secret.

New research casts doubt on what's become a standard practice.

In this employee-friendly market, lots of things about the hiring process have changed to accommodate candidates. But companies don’t seem interested in the goodwill they could earn by giving honest, individual feedback. I work at Triplebyte, and over the last year I’ve written over 3,000 detailed, individual rejection emails. When I started, I wondered why no one else did this. Now, I think I know.

Which hard skill do recent college grads lack the most? In 2016, PayScale asked employers this question. The top response was “writing proficiency.” Wow. Our education system teaches few practical skills, but it does emphasize writing. So what gives? Incompetent teachers? Unteachable students? Actually, the problem for many college graduates is having absorbed their academic training all too well. The challenge for them is to unlearn the bad writing habits picked up from 16-plus years of school.

I have never suffered from writer’s block for lack of ideas. If anything, I get too many ideas and then a sort of a bottleneck effect happens, when all sorts of ideas become lodged in my mind and I have trouble disgorging them. I call it my Christmas lights effect. For me, it’s like taking your last year’s Christmas lights out of the box and finding them all knotted up together, in one giant ball of lights. Then you have to untangle the entire thing, it takes forever, there is much cursing and, in the end, the whole thing might not work, but there are many little light bulbs on that wire.

Writing great blog post titles doesn't have to be hard. Here are five frameworks to help you write better titles for every article you create.

It's called Writing A Compiler In Go and is the sequel to Writing An Interpreter In Go.

The strangest of these characters are those who espouse Blue and Orange Morality. These characters have a moral framework that is so utterly alien and foreign to human experience that we can't peg them as "good" or "evil".

Before the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling was clinically depressed.

I would rather do one single thing every day, and do it well, than be the most productive person in the world. Because quality is my north fucking star. I publish a lot, and I write a lot. That sometimes blows people away, and they ask me if they should try and push out a blog post every single day. …the answer is, no.

With the median income for romance authors tripling in the e-book era, other gig workers could stand to take a page from these novelists' books.

Recently, I was talking to a friend who was feeling disappointed with her blog posts. She’d publish a post, and all she’d hear were crickets. Even after promoting her posts, hardly anyone was commenting or sharing her articles. Most of us writers know what that feels like.