For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

I’ve been writing my own story since shortly after getting sober in 1987. Writing it down made me see that I’d experienced a ...

Want to write a novel in 2026? Or maybe 13 novels? Here's how one incredibly prolific writer gets it all done.

Rachel is a freelancer based in Echo Park, Los Angeles and has been writing and producing content for nearly two decades on subjects ranging from tech to fashion, health and lifestyle to entertainment ...

As a teacher, I’m constantly impressed by the excitement that students show, even in high school and middle school, about having the chance to create narratives. While a large number of the standards ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...

It’s a common sentiment from English teachers facing an onslaught of AI-generated writing in their classrooms: When students rely on ChatGPT to write their essays, they aren’t engaging their brains as ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

It was an emotionally dark and stormy night in 2020 when I had the urge to write a novel. I’d been having panic attacks. To work through it, I decided to write a novel about an isolated mom and a ...

Powered by Gemini, Help Me Write is the generative AI writing tool built into Google Docs and Gmail. Here’s how to get the most out of it while avoiding its pitfalls. Whether you’re a professional ...