We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft ...

This single-syllable, versatile word conveys apology, surprise and/or acknowledgment. Often said when one person accidentally ...

There's no better way to say, "I love you" than by putting pen to paper and writing out a simple love letter. Writing a love ...

The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ...

The Norwegian study asked 36 college students in their early 20s to write words from the game Pictionary using either a digital pen on a touchscreen or typing on a keyboard. The participants wore ...

Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from "Cry Me a River"). Writing lyrics ...

Adam Engst explains why he finds his Grammarly subscription essential even after 35 years of professional writing, describing ...