Colleges and universities are filled with brilliant people, but not enough with the skills to communicate with and meaningfully connect with the wider public. That means sharing insights in new, ...

Storytelling saved my sanity during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown afforded me time to write and share stories about my life and career. I wasn't writing my memoir as much as I was engaged in ...

My search for a definition of narrative, begun in the previous column, continues. This time, I’ve enlisted the help of the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, a group with a long ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...

As a screenwriter, your words have one job: connect. While you control what hits the page, professional writing demands purpose. Every screenplay balances different styles beneath your unique voice.

Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, is one of the most influential literacy educators in the country. She is the author of the ...

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 ...