writing

In 1858, the poet published a 13-column guide to manly health under a pseudonym.

Save your notes on your tablet or phone without taking a million pictures of your notebook.

If you’re struggling to fine tune your writing or reduce that cover letter to a single page, there’s a web app that can help.

From carefully-counting beans to drinking gallons each day, these famous coffee drinkers are on a must-have basis with java.

It erases with heat, so you can reuse it as many times as you like.

Force yourself into a flow state to increase your productivity.

When Margaret Atwood got tired of long book tours, she developed a pen that would sign books for her long-distance.

The prolific mystery writer took an active part in her husband’s archaeology digs.

The inventor of Magnetic Poetry was thrust into his life's work by one well-timed sneeze.

Happy National Novel Writing Month!

The author who terrified (and enthralled) you as kid spills on writing, the state of horror, and his history with humor.

It makes us think before we speak.

They might not be tall, dark strangers, but their stories are fascinating nonetheless.

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum | Public domain via Wikipedia

The author liked to hunt big game. He also liked to eat it.

A portrait of the writer Mark Twain—author of several unfinished manuscripts—circa 1900.

When an author dies with their work unfinished, do we let it molder in vaults, stash it away in archives, or publish it for all the world to see—even if that’s not what the writer wanted?

Author Kurt Vonnegut hated interviews, but when he did give them, his insights into writing were especially valuable, sage, and practical.

He was always on the lookout for new words, which he kept in a growing file on his computer.

In case of narrative emergency, break glass.

'The Bell Jar,' which came out just one month before Sylvia Plath died by suicide at age 30, is the writer's only published novel.

Hungarian brothers László and György Bíró are credited with inventing the pen we still use today.

15 Tips From Walt Whitman for Living a Healthy Life

Moleskine’s Smart Pen Will Digitize Your Drawings in Real Time

This Web App Identifies Unnecessary Words In Your Writing

15 Famous Coffee Fiends

This Microwaveable Notebook Lets You Save Your Pages to the Cloud

This App Deletes Your Work If You Stop Writing

8 Things Invented by Famous Writers

How Archaeology Influenced Agatha Christie

The Past and Future of Magnetic Poetry, the Populist Product that Began With a Sneeze

14 NaNoWriMo Books That Have Been Published

21 Bone-Chilling Secrets About R.L. Stine

How Dictation Software is Changing the Way We Communicate

Hemingway's Recipe for Fillet of Lion

10 Famous Authors and Their Unfinished Manuscripts

15 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Writers and Writing

21 Words From David Foster Wallace's Vocabulary List

10 Writing Tips From Stephen King

The Author Who Wrote in Bookstore Windows

10 Facts About Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

The Origin Story of the Ballpoint Pen

Robots Are Learning to Write Poetry

Where Did the Paperweight Come From?

Where Does the Hashtag (a.k.a. Octothorpe) Come From?