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

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

Or, who had the longest career.

Smithsonian historian David Ward umpires the field of poetry, honoring the boys of spring, and calls a strike

Let’s face it: writing is mostly a solitary business. The picture we have of the writer alone in her room, deep in the writing process, is pretty accurate. Writing takes dedicated hours over a long period of time.

Ever wish there was a shortcut to tap into your readers' emotions? An easy way to make them feel exactly what you want? Well there is. Power words.

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?

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).

Effectively Promote Your Book in 2019 with thw 5 best tactics. If you want to promote your book in 2019, you can easily use one or more of the methods.

Five and a half years ago, my writing career finally seemed on the verge of taking off. I’d just published my first novel, I’d finished writing Publishing E-Books For Dummies, which was to be published by Wiley, and I’d launched an online membership site for writers. Then I got pregnant.

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.

Let's be genuine again.

When I wrote my first book in 2013, I was newly married and working a full-time job. While writing, that dream of every writer’s heart whispered to me every morning: What if this is what you could do to make a living? As I’d done for decades, I silenced that voice of hope with a quick and definitive, “Yeah, right. Nobody’s even going to read this thing.”

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.

If you plan to self-publish your non-fiction book, the most important thing you will ever write is the cover blurb for your book. Here’s how to do it right.

Around a week ago, a plagiarist was caught stealing the work of over thirty writers. Bringing this to light also exposed other scammers and thieves preying on readers and writers, and the entire situation was mind-boggling enough…

Like it or not, all writers need to become “Web content providers” these days. Yeah, I know. Sounds a lot less creative than “author” doesn’t it? And harder. But it actually isn’t. Writing Web content is a little different from writing a traditional essay or magazine article, but it’s not hard. You just have to learn some basic guidelines.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born 100 years ago today, did more than anyone to bring the Soviet Union to its knees.

In May of 1967,” writes Patrick Iber at The Awl, “a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in the Saturday Evening Post under the headline, ‘I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’” With the hard-boiled tone one might expect from a spy, but the candor one may not, Braden revealed the Agency’s funding and support of all kinds of individuals and activities, including, perhaps most controversially, in the arts. Against objections that so many artists and writers were socialists, Braden writes, “in much of Europe in the 1950’s [socialists] were about the only people who gave a damn about fighting Communism.”

The independent blog has been in decline for years. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why you should start a blog in 2019—and host it yourself.

To succeed with content in 2019, you have to go beyond the ordinary. You have to rise well above the sea of thin, mediocre content that floods our inboxes.

The year 2019 is here. Instead of making resolutions, why not start the year with contemplating on what will inspire you?

A new study found that most authors’ incomes are below the poverty line.

How much do freelancers get paid to write? Check out the results of our survey about freelance writing rates in 2019 to find out.

Repetition is a powerfully persuasive tool. Here’s how to make any speech (or article or blog post) more persuasive.

Alla Wagner's $1.7-million property in Millarville, Alta., could be yours — for a small entry fee and some creative pencraft. Wagner, who has health problems after a back injury made navigating stairs impossible, said she needs to downsize, but can't find a buyer. "No offers. Nothing's going on, you know, and I was told it was too high from market value, so I lowered the price," she told Daybreak Alberta. "And it still didn't move at all."