My next book, A Living Remedy, will be out in April. Last month, when I shared designer Vivian Lowe’s gorgeous cover for it and began begging for preorders (as writers must), it felt like the ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

When I was writing my first book, I thought of it as a mountain I had to climb. Or a hurdle to jump. I imagined it as a test: scary, stressful, threatening failure with each page I drafted. A ...

In early 2021, I finally snagged my lifelong Holy Grail: a non-fiction book deal. I was a science reporter covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and I felt there was no more meaningful thing I could do than ...

As a creative writing major, I hate starting sentences with “as a creative writing major.” The phrase comes loaded with expectations for how I should, and probably do, write. Pristine sentences, ...

I hate mindless chain letters (and they’re all mindless). But when Paul Beaumont, author of A Brief Eternity invited me to participate in a so-called “Writing Process blog tour,” it made sense. I had ...