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

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

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.

For Woolf, correspondence became a way to transcend a climate of illness—to envision a future she couldn’t see.

A previously unpublished story by Ernest Hemingway.

Tough love for writers, followed by enormous growth

Whether you’re looking for a job or are among the millions of remote workers, your writing skills have never been more important. Here’s how to brush up and get better.

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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!

A simple and highly effective way to up your game

Looking for ways to get honest feedback on your writing? Read this post to learn about five shrewd ways to receive honest feedback about your writing.

A boat, like a piece of writing, is first of all conceived as a structure. Whether it is a cargo ship, an ocean liner, a ferry, or a pleasure boat, each has a primary function, a part to play. Its purpose defines its size, its shape, and its overall dimensions. When I write, I proceed in the same manner. Each part, each chapter, has its own function. Just as the engine powers the boat, as the bow cleaves through the waves, and the keel ensures the stability, even the shortest paragraph fulfils a certain purpose. In my case, the engineer endows the writer with a desire for efficiency.

When scientists and others use their specialized jargon terms while communicating with the general public, the effects are much worse than just making what they’re saying hard to understand. In a new study, people exposed to jargon when reading about subjects like self-driving cars and surgical robots later said they were less interested in science than others who read about the same topics, but without the use of specialized terms.

Use this simple 5-part structure to publish more often

Punch the damn keys. I mean it! Don’t think, just write! Rummage through your soul for the things that hurt, that count, that make you joyful, remorseful, bitter, angry, hopeful, and hopeless.

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.

In her new memoir, “Scratched,” Elizabeth Tallent explores how the pursuit of perfection can paralyze a writer.

There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money