When I was growing up amidst potters, carpenters, artists and furniture makers in 1970s and 1980s New Hampshire, the highlight of my summer was always the craft fairs my Mom organized. Running around ...

Whether you identify as one or not, everyone is a writer. Between social networks, dating profiles, blogs, and the day-to-day tasks of most jobs, writing is an essential skill. In How to Write Short, ...

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Spell as many words as possible using letters that get red hot when you formulate a word. Each word you craft disintegrates to reveal new letters where you can create even more new words to rack up ...

There's a question that confronts a writer of historical fiction on her first page: How did the dead talk? Ms. Mantel, whose latest Cromwell novel is Bring Up the Bodies, writes about the art of ...