We’re total suckers for self improvement: The self-help industry brings in billions of dollars each year from countless books. All that encouraging advice can feel empowering and commonsensical, ...

These deceptively simple rules are designed to help you access the power of your imagination and allow your true creativity to express itself. The one thing that blocks most writers from having access ...

A new study suggests that the vividness of a person’s fears about their future may be linked to anxiety through its effect on ...

Most of the time, when we sit down to write, we write with the expectation that we’ll eventually use some or most of the words that we produce. And whether we’re writing an email, a business proposal, ...

In this zippy age of fast foods, pay-at-the-pump gas, drive-in pharmacies, and, of course, e-mail, the College Board’s adoption of a 25-minute writing exercise for the revised SAT is hardly a surprise ...

Is losing weight as simple as doing a 15-minute writing exercise? In a new study, women who wrote about their most important values, like close relationships, music, or religion, lost more weight over ...

You can’t just tell the reader the emotion your character is experiencing, you have to show them. You do this by creating images using bricks of significant detail. God and the devil are in the detail ...

A little push at the right time can help move disadvantaged black and Latino students onto the path to college years later, according to two new experimental studies. In several studies over the last ...

Author Monica Valentinelli offers three writing exercises to help get you thinking about science fiction story ideas. Create an alien, destroy the world, and create a fantastical invention. Since many ...

When I spoke to Jane Smiley, author of Some Luck, she suggested that novelists’ ideas—their political, philosophical, experiential concerns—frequently motivate the writing of great books. But then a ...