This week’s excuse for not making more progress on my book or anyone else’s is that I have my first cold in two years, and staring at words makes my headache worse—which has not prevented me from ...

Writing retreats have been mocked as an excuse to check in to a swanky hotel, order room service and escape other obligations, but many writers find them useful for enhancing motivation, focus and ...

Scrivener is a name that gets tossed around a lot in writing circles, but it's not immediately clear how it's useful. Subsequently, I've avoided it for years. Then, on a whim recently, I checked it ...

Writing is not a one-size-fits-all process. Some prefer to sit in front of a keyboard and immediately start typing, while others spend time laying out their thoughts before writing a single word. Yet ...

You’ve done all the hard work and now it’s time to think about how you are going to present it. Organizing and writing the story can be the key to an exceptional investigative report. How you do that ...

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