There comes a time in every writer's life when they must do the unthinkable: allow someone else to read their writing. It happens to the best of us. Unless you are writing in a private diary, which ...

Last semester, when I initially decided to share my work, my students were working on the visual composition unit in which they could either make a comic or a photo essay, accompanied by an ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

In general, when we write, it's with the hope of being read. In the physical world, the barriers to getting published are relatively high, but on the Internet, it's within everyone's reach. Let's take ...

There seems to be a wave of Web applications appearing that break new ground in terms of their sheer cleverness – that “Ah” factor that hits you when you recognize that they are really different and ...

This is a subscriber-exclusive edition of I Have Notes, a newsletter in which I share essays, interviews, advice, and writing discussions. I’ve been thinking about the often subtle shift that occurs ...