Writer’s block. We’ve all experienced the dreaded symptoms. Your hand frozen over the page. The blank screen staring back at you like an unblinking eyeball. The fear rising, whispering “you’ll never ...

Writing can often feel like an exercise in fruitlessness. And yet, I can’t help but shake the notion that if I were to just approach it from the right angle, it wouldn’t prove to be so unapproachable.

As a creative writing major, I hate starting sentences with “as a creative writing major.” The phrase comes loaded with expectations for how I should, and probably do, write. Pristine sentences, ...

Emily Dickinson wrote, “Much Madness is divinest Sense / to a discerning Eye / Much Sense — the starkest Madness — / ’Tis the majority.” Writers are seemingly mad to the rest of the world. We’re ...

In 1954, Florence Moog, a biology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, published a paper in the prestigious journal Science titled “Can Scientists Write for the General Public?” She was ...

Writer’s block is one of the few things that nearly all writers share, no matter where they are in their careers. The beginning writer working on their first book. The bestselling debut novelist ...