When I first taught personal narrative in my freshmen Literature and Writing course last year I planned a traditional unit. I practiced descriptive writing techniques by having them listen to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past ten to 15 years, the quality of writing in games has been transformed. Not surprisingly, the primary agents of this transformation are professional writers. Some of these writers come from ...

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 ...

I think I fell in love with journalism then because of the ability to really experience life through other people’s eyes and ...

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 ...

Many doctors feel that writing is a struggle. "They delay. They feel inadequate -- even inauthentic," wrote psychiatrists Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA, and John Coverdale, MD, MEd, who are ...