Writing

As a writer on Medium, you have two great resources at your disposal: a very simple editor, where the focus is just on writing your story, and a deep, deep list of extra features that can help you…

Welcome back, readers!  We have returned from our July break refreshed and ready for a new school year of sharing ideas, resources,  and teaching practices here at Two Writing Teac…

Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the iAcquire blog. One of the best ways to engage ...

Timeless advice from bestselling author Stephen King on how to be an excellent writer.

Chuck Sambuchino shares sixteen tips for professional submissions.

As a writing teacher, I know that I must write – and I do: blog posts, book reviews, a Slice of Life every Tuesday, letters to my students in the reading journals and writer’s notebooks,  les…

Flash-drafting helps get thoughts down on the page quickly so writers are open to large-scale revisions.

Andrea Deets is the Lead Writer at Crew, an invite-only network connecting short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. This post originally appeared on the ...

Andrea Ayres-Deets is the Lead Writer at ooomf, an invite-only network connecting short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Andrea writes about psychology, ...

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There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.

When I first wrote a novel in 1991, I remember walking down the road and seeing a pretty girl and thinking, She might like me now.This post original

Guest blogger David Cutler examines the concision, clarity, fairness and objectivity of good professional journalism, and looks to the tones and rhythms of contemporary news reporting to help his history students become better writers.

A few years ago I thought I had a brilliant idea.  I created a master writer’s notebook since my notebook writing, which I shared with students during writing conferences and in minilessons, …

September 14, 2012 - manuscripts: A writer should understand to a point of second nature that writing a piece of fiction is the art of simulating everyday language, not realistically capturing it. With the exception of dialogue...

There is a current breath-of-fresh air movement (in my opinion) in some education circles that is known as Maker Education or the DIY Movement.  I wrote recent post on this topic, STEAM and Maker E…

Best-selling writers including John Green and Veronica Roth share their strategies for crafting authentic, relatable teen characters—even in fantasy worlds.

Most software editing apps are fraught with "feature creep," which become major distractions during the writing process.

via Pew Internet Overview A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and high school students finds that digital technologies are impacting student writing in myriad ways and there ar...