Many people want to write a book, but few actually do it because of how difficult the process can be. I’ve interviewed thousands of business professionals and thought leaders about their books, and ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Soon after ChatGPT was released, an artificial intelligence researcher from one of the big tech companies told me that I shouldn’t worry about how the technology would affect how students learn to ...

There is something enduringly mysterious about the human capacity for language. Our mouths and throats contain an array of muscles and tissue that allow us to modulate the air we take in, transforming ...

George is a talented writer who graduated from the University of Exeter with a Bachelor's Degree in English. His main hobbies include writing and gaming, and he spends most of his free time doing one ...

In fall of 2024, I led a workshop for postdocs on how to engage undergraduates in the face of so much competition for their attention. Afterward, when we met for lunch, the postdocs quickly turned the ...

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...

As a writer, I am aware of the long and pervasive discourse about the difficulty of writing. Writing is arduous and enervating, frequently frustrating, wrought with failure, and also, I believe, a fun ...

A woman has been working on her book, a young adult fantasy novel, for hours. At some point, she gets the familiar itch to check her email: She can’t think of what to write next. She stares at the ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

The most nauseating, addictive thing about writing is the uncertainty—and I don’t mean the is-anyone-reading? or will-I-make-rent? kind. The uncertainty I’m talking about dogs the very act. This ...

The Next Big Story prize awards $100,000 to the chosen emerging writer, along with support from authors and editors on finishing their book Lynda Churilla Online writing school The Novelry has ...