Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

The theme of Aristotle’s Poetics is not poetry as we now conceive of it, but the imitative arts. The first book treats especially of tragedy and epic poetry. Because the second book addressed comedy, ...

Created by author and physicist Randy Ingermanson, the Snowflake Method provides you with a structured, step-by-step approach ...

If you’ve ever considered writing a book, you’ve also probably asked yourself this common question: is my idea any good? Is ...

Open up any screenwriting book or Google “how to write a script” and you’ll come across a litany of terms both familiar and foreign: “protagonist,” “antagonist,” “beat,” “plot,” “climax,” “inciting ...