Romaine Washington is the editor of “These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology,” “Purgatory Has an Address” and “Sirens in Her Belly.” (Courtesy of Romaine Washington) The worst thing about ...

Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to ...

Writer’s block often starts when an idea is still vague. This prompt works because it replaces writing with answering. By ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Nearly every week as I sit down to write this newsletter, I’m gripped with panic—the ...

Writer’s block. We’ve all experienced the dreaded symptoms. Your hand frozen over the page. The blank screen staring back at you like an unblinking eyeball. The fear rising, whispering “you’ll never ...

The top factors in B2B content writing success are audience research, more frequent content, and improved content quality. All that work is time-consuming, yet the average content writer creates ...

In bold, all-caps letters, the phrase shouts back at me. It’s printed on an otherwise empty page in the book cupped in my hands: “The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez. For a moment, it feels as though the ...

A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. Best-known for the 1915 novella “The Metamorphosis,” the Prague-born Jewish writer struggled ...

Today, at 83, she lives in Jamul with her husband of 20 years, Luis. She took some time to talk about her writing, never getting writer’s block, and how “words allow access to people’s lives in ways ...