Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders discussed his latest novel “Vigil” with moderator and journalist Peter Sagal before a sold-out audience Monday for the Chicago Humanities Festival at the ...

Academics tend to think of writing as an independent process. But it can be incredibly helpful to have other people look at your work. Peer review makes the writing process collaborative and ...

"No plan" could be a title to a Reacher novel. Like Elmore Leonard, the brothers said they would just start writing, but it's not the same as winging it or making things up as they go along. It's a ...

Jessica Douthwaite received funding from the AHRC from 2014-2017 and 2021-2024. To what do we owe our conscience? John le Carré once stated that all his fictional characters were, one way or another, ...

If Matthew McConaughey has to do something stressful, sometimes he’ll write himself a little note that says, “Just remember you’re going to die one day.” “It’s like, oh, that’s right,” said the ...

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Source: Stable Diffusion, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I love teaching writing. It's my favorite job ever. Part of the reason it's fun is that I get to teach something I'm passionate about. But that's ...

Imagine sitting down to write, staring at a blank page, and feeling the familiar pressure of crafting the perfect sentence. Now, picture an assistant by your side—one that can brainstorm ideas, refine ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

It’s a cliché that there’s nothing scarier than the blank page, and AI can be a great tool for getting a writer over that first big hurdle. While writers working with a partner or in a writers’ room ...

Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...