Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

A woman has been working on her book, a young adult fantasy novel, for hours. At some point, she gets the familiar itch to check her email: She can’t think of what to write next. She stares at the ...

Artificial intelligence systems that generate sustained conversations in response to user input ("generative AI") have captured headlines recently. Such composing tools offer challenges and ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...