In the last year of my undergraduate career, I’ve been reconsidering the role of writing as a type of artistic performance, and, more importantly, as a type of social change. How does writing make ...

When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...

The Writer’s Notebook is a collection of essays on writing from the book publishing branch of Tin House, which also puts out a well regarded literary journal featuring many of today’s promising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson almost missed a day in his daily writing habit -- but even the writer's block had ...

When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...

I know this writer who gets up at 4 a.m. and runs five miles then locks himself in his office and writes for six hours everyday. He keeps himself in there and his kids aren’t allowed to bother him too ...