With rejection and criticism so much a part of the literary experience (and the fact that the income of the average American writer hovers around the poverty line), one has to wonder if writers have ...

Regardless of your age, if you love romance or thriller novels—or if you’ve spent a good amount of time in a library or ...

Reasons Why Writing is a Powerful Tool for Introverts Introverts often find themselves overshadowed in environments that ...

In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking,” Joan Didion once said. For some people, writing comes naturally. It’s how they make sense of the world. For others, it’s an acquired skill. I fall ...

“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I am inviting ...

I have been writing professionally for nearly 35 years, and I like to think that I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Between TidBITS and the TidBITS Content Network articles I create for Apple ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

Today in publishing: Scott Rudin is developing Swamplandia! for HBO, three major publishing houses are going to let authors have greater access to their sales numbers, and the National Day on Writing.