An invitation came by email to contribute to a teaching volume. A brief piece, only a few hundred words long, was needed. Describe a favorite teaching exercise from your literature classes. The word ...

This GradHacker post was written by Julie Platt, Michigan State University PhD student in Writing and Rhetoric Studies, @AristotleJulep Just before Christmas, I finished the second of a set of ...

Write a story in which the narrator refuses to tell the story. Permit the narrator to come close to telling the story—perhaps ...

When I spoke to Jane Smiley, author of Some Luck, she suggested that novelists’ ideas—their political, philosophical, experiential concerns—frequently motivate the writing of great books. But then a ...

We’re total suckers for self improvement: The self-help industry brings in billions of dollars each year from countless books. All that encouraging advice can feel empowering and commonsensical, ...

Most of the time, when we sit down to write, we write with the expectation that we’ll eventually use some or most of the words that we produce. And whether we’re writing an email, a business proposal, ...

When we think about relationships, we tend to think about our connections with others—our partners, friends, family members, and co-workers. This post focuses on a relationship that often gets ...