First published in the spring of 1994, two months before the birth of Amazon and one month after the death of Kurt Cobain, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott has far outlasted the era of its origin, becoming ...

I’m having the biggest writing block of my life. Metaphorically speaking. Actually, it’s a life block. What do I mean? I officially graduated to the empty nest years. Now what? Like a writer’s block, ...

Writer's block, characterized by a prolonged inability to generate written content or a feeling of creative stagnation, affects writers across genres and disciplines. It is a common and often ...

One of generative AI's most impressive capabilities is composing text that reads well, follows proper structure, and adheres to language and punctuation rules. Khan Academy found a way to harness ...

AI Writing Assistants: A Cure for Writer's Block or Modern-Day Clippy? Is artificial intelligence good enough to assist professional writers with their daily word output? We put Jasper, Rytr, and ...

Improv games and exercises can be incorporated into the writing process to overcome writer's block and boost productivity. Improv's "Yes, and..." rule is a great writing tool; when writers know they ...

I’ve always found writing to be one of the most important skills a person can have in their life. Not everyone will become a best-selling novelist or a master prose writer, but I firmly believe that ...

Writer's block is truly a unique phenomenon. Nobody knows where it comes from, why it occurs, or when it will strike. But everyone knows that when it hits you, it hits hard. Sometimes the condition ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.