Articles

Writer's Practice

Read more articles on Writer's Practice →

AI Writing

Read more articles on AI Writing →

Essay Club

The Goon Squad - Daniel Kolitz (2025) The Unreal Thing - Adam Gopnik (2003) Essay Club The Braindead Megaphone - GEORGE SAUNDERS Read more articles on Essay Club →

All Articles

Sep 30
Grammar Nazis vs Expert Writing
Sep 27
It's the Tale, Not the Teller
Sep 27
How to Transform Messy Drafts into Clear Writing
Sep 20
Words, words, words
Sep 14
Lucky I didn't get fired today
Sep 06
Making Readers Care
Sep 06
Why you can't write like you think
Sep 06
Posing Problems: An Introduction Structure that Fails to Repel
Aug 30
The World Is Made of Stories, not Atoms
Aug 27
The Most Powerful Writing Frameworks to Write CLEARLY
Aug 22
"Interference" Is Why You Can't Write Well
Aug 16
Stop Asking Readers for Feedback
Aug 04
The day my student fired me
Aug 03
What Makes the Perfect Essay (5 Things)
Jul 23
A.I. Mistakes Writers Must Stop Making
Jul 20
I coached 25 writers and learned THIS
Jul 20
The Nerve Stem: Making the Argument in a Metaphor in DFW's Consider the Lobster
Jul 13
The best language is the one everyone speaks
Jun 29
I retyped a whole McCarthy novel to become a great writer. (It didn't work.)
Jun 22
what Wall-E does for a living
Jun 15
Look for where things are the same, look for where they're different
Jun 09
Write better sentences without feeling inspired
Jun 09
This Connected State: An Interview with Paul Millerd - Writer Science
Jun 05
The Goon Squad - Daniel Kolitz (2025)
Jun 02
Write something only you could have written
May 28
Sentence Patterns for Writers
May 27
What am I actually writing about? (how to know for sure)
May 22
Revealing a New Yorker Writer's Personal Essay Strategy
May 15
Stop trying to find your writing voice (do this instead)
May 11
Writing Advice I've Changed My Mind About (After Teaching It For 10 Years)
May 06
give up DISCIPLINE, you'll write freely
Apr 26
I learned a system for writing effortlessly
Apr 23
What the Best Science Writers Know That Most Experts Don't
Apr 02
The 5 Writing Skills A.I. Will Never Replace
Mar 22
The Grammar of Experience: M.A.K. Halliday's Writing System for Carving a Figure from the Flow of Change
Mar 21
The Senses Were Never Separate: David Abram on Perception, Presence, and the Art of Description
Mar 21
The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
Mar 19
Put Your Ideas Where Readers Expect Them
Mar 19
"Weirdly Plausible:" Adam Gopnik on Why The Matrix Still Lives in Our Heads
Mar 19
The Unreal Thing - Adam Gopnik (2003)
Mar 18
Tollbooth Syndrome: George Gopen on Communication and the Real Purpose of Writing
Mar 17
Swing and a Miss: George Gopen Explains Why Your Ideas Don't Land
Mar 16
The Coffee Stain Problem: Why You Can't Read Your Own Writing
Mar 14
Write in Fractals
Mar 14
The Big Picture: Give Readers the Map Before the Terrain
Mar 14
Problems that Make Readers Care
Mar 14
Emphasis: Save the Best for Last
Mar 14
Coherence: Make Your Sentences Add Up to Something
Mar 14
Flow: Connect Your Sentences with Old-Before-New
Mar 13
Zombie Nouns: Know When to Break the Rule