Peggy Atkins has spent almost 20 years on a mission: getting people to write. “I’m convinced everybody has a story, but not everybody recognizes that fact,” she says. Atkins has been ...

Cressida Leyshon interviews the author David Means about “The Depletion Prompts,” his story from the November 1, 2021, issue of The New Yorker.

Everyone has a story to tell. Writing a memoir is more than just documenting your life — it can help you process what you've gone through, capture a moment in history for descendants and help ...

Published in the print edition of the July 29, 2024, issue, with the headline “Writing Prompts.” More Humor and Cartoons Reasons I was crying on the subway .

I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced a severe crisis of faith regarding the future — of academia, of writing, of thinking.

"Legacy writing is a way of documenting your life experiences, values, and opinions to share with others. It can be a cherished gift to family and loved ones, and healing for the writers themselves." ...

For several seconds, the room in Catonsville Senior Center is motionless. A woman — one of the growing number of elderly people writing their life stories in classes across the nation ...

That’s why I decided to put two of the most advanced (and arguably most creative) models head-to-head: ChatGPT-4.5 and Claude 4 Sonnet. Both tout improved reasoning and language capabilities, leaving ...

Have you ever shared advice only to have it returned? Writing about family histories can reveal precious stories.

To use the app, you engage in conversations with an AI agent, built on Anthropic technology, that prompts you to tell a story. For instance, the initial prompt may ask you to tell a story about an ...