As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I ...

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you’re out of practice — or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be — especially when it comes to ...

The more you create, the more you mess around, the more powerful your work becomes against the test of time. Give yourself time to figure out what ‘good music’ sounds like to you. Butts. Butts ...

With InDesign, you can add stylish text effects in order to attract readers' attention to important parts of the documents. InDesign allows you to write words along the edge of an open or closed shape ...

Did you know April is National Poetry Month? If you're a student looking for a creative outlet, consider trying your hand at poetry—or another form of writing—as a member of Writers Writing Words. A ...

The brain has been studied for decades and still, some of its functions are not fully understood. A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University made headway in brain function research by ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. 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 ...