Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

The Sudowrite Story Engine is a tool that's designed to help you finish, finalize, or actually generate an entire novel from scratch. It uses the power of OpenAI's natural language model aAI (the same ...

My first attempt at writing a video game script begins with the socialist journalist and activist Marina Ginestà, a remarkable woman who died five years ago, at the age of 94. Although she lived an ...

When his wife later became seriously ill, the medical bills and related expenses wiped out their savings and left him with ...

My daughter is only eight months old, and already I’ve read “Goodnight Moon” to her at least a hundred times. It’s part of a lengthy bedtime ritual that includes a bath, a massage, Radiohead, a kind ...

Today's the day. It's happening. You've decided to write your first short story. Maybe this story idea has been kicking around your head for the last 10 years, or maybe you just googled a list of ...

An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

It's not uncommon for writers to have a day job. Lawyers write. Soldiers and teachers write. But there seems to be a special connection between the medical profession and the art of writing. The list ...

Ed Charlton describes his greatest satisfaction with creative writing as receiving positive feedback from a reader.

After crafting a story about two rival kingdoms and a third secretly pulling the strings, middle schooler Hailee Shrimplin is ...