Writing is a very personal practice, and as a result you have a million writing-focused apps to choose from. From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed mainstays like ...

It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

2014 was the second year of “By Heart,” The Atlantic’s weekly series about writing, artistic influence, and the creative process. Though the series is based on a formula—artistic creators choose a ...

This story comes from Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top of the page or find it here. It's kind of a truism that ...

Writing in the 21 st century is undergoing significant changes as technological innovations constantly emerge; interconnected social, racial, and ecological crises multiply and intensify; and the ...

Three therapists and twelve women who are surviving partner or stranger violence, accidental trauma, and rape sit in a wide circle, not too close to each other, on a Tuesday evening. Our class, ...

I’m sure you’ve heard that if you want to achieve a goal, you need to write it down. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but it actually does work. One of my studies, called "The Gender Gap and ...

(This is the last post in a Three-Part series on this topic. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Part One featured contributions from Marjorie McAneny, Alan Sitomer, PJ Caposey and Steven ...

If you have always wanted to write a book but you are not certain which genre would be the best option for you then read our list of 6 easiest genres to write. Writing is not easy regardless of what ...