Whether you identify as one or not, everyone is a writer. Between social networks, dating profiles, blogs, and the day-to-day tasks of most jobs, writing is an essential skill. In How to Write Short, ...

Spell as many words as possible using letters that get red hot when you formulate a word. Each word you craft disintegrates to reveal new letters where you can create even more new words to rack up ...

There's a question that confronts a writer of historical fiction on her first page: How did the dead talk? Ms. Mantel, whose latest Cromwell novel is Bring Up the Bodies, writes about the art of ...