False starts, half-written pieces, and scattered notebooks are the messy and necessary detritus of a creative life. Wisdom lies in knowing which of those projects to carry through to completion.

What if you treat the act of writing as a gift to share with people you care about? A way to form a fleeting connection with words?

As readers, we approach a blog post or article differently than a book—a shift that every writer should understand.

Headline writers often entice us to click by creating what’s called a knowledge gap, making us think that there’s something that we don’t know that we now want to know.

Shipping the work always feels risky, awakening the demons of doubt. Here are three ways to get past them.