“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 ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

Time to practice your handwriting again. Want to remember something? Don't type it out—write it down. At least that's what a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests, concluding that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Think of all the things you’ve ever written. Essay. Journal entry. TikTok comment. What did you ...

Miami University professor Elizabeth Wardle says technological advances won’t replace the need for skilled writing—and that you’re writing more than you think. In an era where communication happens ...

In the fabric of our existence, the future is not some distant, separate entity; it’s intricately interwoven within our narratives. Each narrative strand we spin, each word we choose, bears the latent ...

Advice books on academic productivity tell you to establish a writing routine, and stick to it. The experts say it’s a mistake to think you’ll get much accomplished in frenetic bursts. So why are we ...

It could be a symptom of psychological disorder — “making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons” — but that’s how Orwell describes his own beginnings (“the lonely child’s habit”) ...

The art of writing should be on the endangered species list. Think about this if you are working on getting your message out to the public. At its foundation, writing is communicating an idea to a ...