Oldest form of Writing? 40,000-year-old engraved symbols found in Germany suggest writing began in the Ice Age

New analysis of 40,000-year-old carvings discovered in Germany show repeated patterns and structure, hinting that early ...

Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

First evidence of writing found in a German cave

The birth of writing could be 40,000 years earlier than previously thought after scientists found etchings in a German cave.
Business Insider

Escape from the algorithm: How creators are embracing newsletters and blogs to foster community and make money

Influencers have been turning to different forms of long-form writing, like newsletters and blogs. Building community on social media has been a struggle for many creators. Writing can also be a smart ...

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
Fast Company

The Secrets Of Writing Smart, Long-form Articles That Go Absolutely Viral

Note: BuzzFeed publishes several long and excellent feature stories every week, as you can see on their Big Stories page. We did not intend to belittle the work of the editors and writers there, and ...

Big One Publisher Launches SEO Optimized Ghost Writing Services for Structured Content Projects

Big One Publisher Launches SEO Optimized Ghost Writing Services for Structured Content Projects EDISON, NJ, UNITED ...
Yahoo

In Praise of Journaling, the Therapeutic Writing Form Anyone Can Do

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the age of Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, sharing is caring. Putting stray musings out into the social stratosphere isn't ...
Los Angeles Times

Q&A: Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form

Is Maggie Nelson a poet, a critic, or a memoirist? No label is quite right, no category quite enough. Works like “Bluets” and last year’s “The Argonauts” are full of sentences that move from the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Writing is Becoming the Lost American Art Form

Henry N. Brooks ’19 is a Social Studies concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Fridays. One of my favorite scenes in American cinema is from Robert Redford’s “A River Runs ...