When I first taught personal narrative in my freshmen Literature and Writing course last year I planned a traditional unit. I practiced descriptive writing techniques by having them listen to the ...

Writing a book can reshape identity and self-understanding by forcing people to organize their experiences and ideas into a ...

Many doctors feel that writing is a struggle. "They delay. They feel inadequate -- even inauthentic," wrote psychiatrists Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA, and John Coverdale, MD, MEd, who are ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

I’ve noticed something interesting about my favorite book authors, such as Roald Dahl. They not only write narrative books, and narrative chapters; they write narrative paragraphs. Book paragraphs, ...

There's a saying that “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” In business and life, communication on all levels is a key component to success, but there ...

For people going through a divorce, a technique called narrative expressive writing -- not just writing about their emotions, but creating a meaningful narrative of their experience -- may reduce the ...

Storytelling saved my sanity during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown afforded me time to write and share stories about my life and career. I wasn't writing my memoir as much as I was engaged in ...

Anyone who wants to write books would do well to spend some time working at a publishing company — doesn’t matter if it’s in editorial, production, or marketing, the overview you get as a would-be ...