These are three of many possible prompts that Bess O’Brien offers to participants in her writing workshops. Rather than fictional stories, the documentary filmmaker from Peacham is looking to elicit ...

From the first question, Variety’s A Night in the Writers’ Room gathering of five drama showrunners was a lively affair as the scribes compared notes and reflected on how much television has changed ...

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 ...

I read about the writing process a lot, or talk to people about it. There’s apparently some process that you’re supposed to develop so that your writing becomes as good as it can be, some way of going ...

At the satirical news outlet The Onion, the writing process is comprehensive, according to Onion staff writer Nick Mehendale. “It’s a holistic experience of writing,” Mehendale said. “It’s not a ...

Awkward situations, racist remarks, and class in America; these are all aspects of modern culture that author Kiley Reid wanted to explore when she began writing her 2019 debut novel, Such a Fun Age, ...

Writing tools that won't try and do the writing for you ...

Gennifer Hutchison, who is known for her work on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and is currently one of the writers on Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show, has shared some fascinating ...