Writing retreats have been mocked as an excuse to check in to a swanky hotel, order room service and escape other obligations, but many writers find them useful for enhancing motivation, focus and ...

W riting projects have come to a screeching halt for some academics, overwhelmed in this difficult year by the unfamiliar and heavy demands of remote teaching. People are tired, afraid, and ...

I also have, shall we say, a fragmented attention span, and my therapist likes to routinely bring up how many women my age have undiagnosed ADHD, which I now take as a not-so-subtle hint. So I need ...

I began the summer after my first year as an assistant professor having written almost nothing. As the constraints of the semester fell away, a wide expanse of time stretched before me to catch up on ...

Reading and writing on a schedule that makes sense for you is exactly what you should be doing. If writing a couple of times a month is what works for you now, that’s great—it’s important to set goals ...

This year I tried a new writing practice in my 8th grade English class, and it led me to an important realization about writing development. Like many great classroom moments, this one happened by ...

All writing you do in a business context should be focused on audience needs and expectations. The rhetorical strategies you have learned in first-year composition or its equivalent will be very ...

Natalie Goldberg shoots from the hip. The the author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Goldberg is an artist and teacher who doesn't suffer fools, mince words, or waiver in her ...