Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence," shares whimsical ways to start a letter-writing habit.

Before getting into the subject at hand, I just want to acknowledge all of the young artists, writers, painters and people of their field feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated in the ...

When I was a kid, I devoured every fantasy novel I could get my hands on, and that includes the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I found the books to be incredibly accessible and to hold up ...

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

Screenwriting is never easy. Sometimes an idea will come to you that seems that way, but when you put it on paper, unpacking it gets a little murky.

Delaney asked to borrow my “The Old Man and the Sea,” which was required reading in one of her collegiate courses. I ...

Critics, possibly sparked by the gender experiments in “Garden of Eden,” became interested in Hemingway’s “androgyny” and ...

Academic writing can be a real headache. If you’re like most students, you’ve probably stared at a blank page wondering how ...