Writing

In a sense, my career in the United States Foreign Service prepared me for thriller writing. During the Cold War, I was posted at the U.S. Embassy in what was then East Berlin.

Read Across America Day was originally synonymous with the author of "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham."

What did I need any typewriter for?

"You become a writer by writing. There is no other way. So do it, do it more, do it better. Fail, fail better." - Margaret Atwood

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Between 600,000 and one million books get published every year in America, according to Forbes, and out of those, only 200 sell over 100,000 copies, and hardly 10 make it to even a million copies. Find out how you can be a best-selling novelist with help from the masters.

A heated discussion about which font type and size people prefer has sparked much controversy on Twitter.

The Fox & Friends hosts and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee took their daily shots at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday, floating a conspiracy theory she's a communist "Manchurian candidate" with ghost writers telling her what to say and ask.

"I was baffled, and it made me semi-angry because I feel like it's 2019 and we're still having to deal with this."

The student was charged with one felony count of a written threat to do bodily harm or mass shooting.

A gaggle of senior White House officials are rushing to deny writing the anonymous New York Times op-ed that scathingly portrayed President Donald Trump.

He wrote scripts for Star Trek and was once sacked from a job at Disney after just half a day.

"We've been taught for years that focusing on the positive could lead us to success," says the study's author.

The mosaic's multicolored patterns were painstakingly composed of tiny stones—about 3,000 of them per square foot.

The fragment shows the left half of the Japanese character for "shu" (the Chinese pronunciation would be "zhou").

The Book of Deer, written at the monastery, is an illuminated manuscript—embellished with gold and silver—from the Bible's New Testament.

Hippocrates described unidentified parasitic worms in his medical texts 2,500 years ago. Ancient human poop just revealed which ones.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley denies requests for a public hearing.

The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn't just restrictive, it's often just plain wrong.

In certain types of online communication, it's stranger to use a period than not.

We asked good writers to share their worst embarrassments.

The story of how a down-on-her-luck, single mother created her own fairytale ending.

'AI writing bot' Xiaomigbot produced up to 58 articles a day for a Chinese publication.

Dickens and Shakespeare are fine for teenagers, but Dan Brown isn't, apparently.

Profits from her compilation of old diary entries will go toward the girls' writing and mentoring organization.

Beware: Don't write a book that is a duplicate of information anyone can find on the Internet. Nor a summary of what you learned from Googling.

It's been a rough year for the pop culture Internet.

We asked successful writers to open up about their worst failures.

Doctor Gonzo's former home in Woody Creek, Colorado, will be open to visitors next year and serving his favorite breakfast: gin Jell-O.

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