Writer and editor Brandy Jensen on giving yourself the space to be creative, and the difficulty of understanding yourself in the present.

I left my job at the New York Post with no backup plan and no real prospects.

A simple and highly effective way to up your game

What was your first Big Yes? I was first introduced to this question by the writer Swati Khurana in 2015. When I think of the first Big Yes, I think of the moment that marks the first big shift...

Forget fairness, succeeding as a writer is a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck.

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It depends. How bad do you want it?

Before I started taking writing seriously, I had a loose grasp of many mathematical and technical concepts; and I was not sure how to tackle open-ended problems. Maintaining this research blog has clarified my thoughts and improved how I approach research problems. The goal of this post is to explain why I have found the process so valuable.

Don't let the hustle and bustle of the approaching holiday season affect your writing productivity—here are 4 ways to stay focused on your book!

No matter your medium, writing is a learned skill that doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Moreover, writing well is hard work and, unfortunately, there are no simple shortcuts to becoming a wordsmith overnight.

Hopefully, you won’t make the same mistakes as me.

Here are eight steps to follow that will help you become a better writer and sharpen your writing skills.

For writers, “going viral” means that you have a piece of writing (most likely something that was either initially published online, or at least accessible there) that has been rampantly shared in a short amount of time.

I don’t do resolutions. Well, that’s not completely true. I did make one this year — to read everyday, even if for only a half hour, and only from real tree books. But maybe you guys, as members of the tortured writers club, do try to start with a clean slate come the new year. You know, the usual stuff like make a daily word quota; write every day no matter what; stop wasting time on Facebook; get a short story published in Ellery Queen.

You’ll fly higher without it.

Write shorter. Much shorter.

A society dedicated to preserving the correct use of the apostrophe has shut down because "ignorance has won".  Retired journalist John Richards, 96, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 to make sure the “much-abused” punctuation mark was being used correctly. But Mr Richards has now announced: “With regret I have to announce that, after some 18 years, I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society.

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

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