It’s 9 p.m., you have a 10-page paper due tomorrow and you’re feeling good: you have the whole night (and morning) ahead of you. What could possibly get between you and completing this paper? Sure, ...

There’s nothing more fun than consolidating everything you have learned this semester into at least ten pages (all of which are currently blank). When you have papers to write during reading period ...

With college application season right around the corner, the pressure is on for many students to shell out a killer admissions essay. Thankfully, the Internet is here to help. There's no shortage of ...

Writing a song is difficult. Writing a good song is even more so. Songwriting is a labor of love: Though the average song is usually three to five minutes long, it can take hundreds of hours for a ...

Octavia Butler once said in an interview with Locus magazine that "You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at ...

Ann Packer is the bestselling author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier, Songs Without Words, and, most recently, The Children's Crusade, which is out this month. Packer shares her 5 writing tips. I’m ...