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After three years at ABC Newspapers (give or take a week), I must bid adieu to my hometown newspaper. This is a change that I had seen coming, though not necessarily this soon. I’m incredibly proud of ...
Jordan Peele might have penned one of the greatest screenplays of all time, but the director still shared his advice on getting out of a creative slump.
The WritersBLOCK / ReadersBLOCK project in Hobart is a reminder of the importance of stories, and the benefits of making time ...
The best poems come from saying something true in your own words that’s why Brighton Park Poets are offering workshops to ...
Independent bookstores aren’t as abundant as they once were, but readers are thankful to have an outlier in the Writer’s ...
Aryana Mahasseni, a student at Carlsbad High School, has taken first place in The Coast News' inaugural Teen Writing Contest.
Dr. Ruth Oji Writer’s block, the nemesis of scholars across disciplines, can transform the exciting prospect of articulating one’s research into a daunting ordeal.
Journalists are no strangers to the horrors of a blank page — staring at it, wanting to tear it apart and hoping words could magically appear. Writer’s block, though on occasion dismissed as laziness ...
Former UCLA professor Mike Rose, who passed away in 2021, authored a research paper on the topic after interviewing and working with 10 students — all skilled writers, but five of whom struggled with ...
Now what? Like a writer’s block, I’m kind of frozen. How do I start this new chapter? I have no idea. When I started writing my motherhood novel 22 years ago, I had to jump right in immediately.
On Monday, Khan Academy announced it is piloting Khanmigo Writing Coach, an AI tool that guides students through writing their first drafts to promote learning and combat writer's block. Also: How ...
Writing can often feel like an exercise in fruitlessness. And yet, I can’t help but shake the notion that if I were to just approach it from the right angle, it wouldn’t prove to be so ...