Entrepreneurs are building tools that create emails or marketing copy using GPT-3, text-generation technology released earlier this year.

Pre-Invasion, message sticks were sent between distant communities to maintain diplomatic relations. They demanded acknowledgement and mutual respect.

In 2017, the Times dissolved its copy desk, possibly permitting more typos to slip through. Meet the anonymous lawyer who’s correcting the paper of record one untactful tweet at a time.

Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses the dangers of authors being forced to hire their own fact-checker out of pocket. If they do so at all.

Joanne Harris has revealed that she was paid only £5,000 for the film rights to Chocolat. So why do some authors get the big bucks and some have to settle for the crumbs?

A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.”

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

Fantasy author Terry Goodkind, who created the decades-long series The Sword of Truth, has died at 72 years old. He leaves behind an important but complicated legacy, as his personal views and attitude tended to collide with his work.

What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should be useful.

Writing is hard, but don’t overlook the difficulty — and the importance — of editing your own work before letting others see it. Here’s how.

7 tips to clean up your dirty first draft before you publish

Some writers have always claimed they can hear their characters speaking, with Enid Blyton suggesting she could “watch and hear everything” and Alice Walker describing how her characters would “come for a visit ... and talk”. But a new study has shown this uncanny experience is very widespread, with almost two-thirds of authors reporting that they hear their characters’ voices while they work.

William Skidelsky: Ebooks have reignited the question of what we're really paying publishers for – the physical product, or what's written inside?

To use Twitter effectively, think more about your audience than yourself

A previously unpublished story by Ernest Hemingway.

Update: An interesting discussion around this started in hacker news

An early draft of a paper, blog post, grant proposal, or other piece of technical writing typically has many problems. Some of these are high-level issues, such as weak motivation, sections in the wrong order, or a key description that is difficult to understand because it lacks an accompanying figure. These problems need to be identified and fixed, but this is just about impossible as long as the text is crappy and drafty.

Novelist Amy Sackville reflects on how what sounded like a perfect occasion for creative writing has filled instead with vacancy

Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesetters

From Francis Spufford to Sarah Waters, contemporary writers have brought new complexity and playfulness to historical fiction