For some people, writing comes naturally. It’s how they make sense of the world. For others, it’s an acquired skill. I fall ...

Write a story in which the narrator refuses to tell the story. Permit the narrator to come close to telling the story—perhaps to long to tell the story, to speculate about how much fun it would be to ...

I often find that putting dialogue onto the page for your characters is one of them ore challenging aspects of all writing.

Mark Carney didn’t just deliver a good speech at Davos, he wrote it himself – a lesson in the optics of authenticity for ...

What happens to writing when we stop writing? This piece reflects on how time away from the page quietly reshapes memory and ...

Glencore’s latest price target has shifted, and that change puts a fresh spotlight on how investors are thinking about the ...

The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

These assorted studies are helpful for both clinicians and clients. Because of issues of confidentiality, the therapy work is ...

This interview was published in Arts & Ideas, a publication by The Martha’s Vineyard Times, in 2024. After the tragic news of John Forté’s death at the start of 2026, we wanted to republish the piece ...

Everyday writing tools are quietly deciding which characters lead, which serve, and which never appear at all. In hundreds of thousands of AI-generated stories, those choices consistently favored ...

The story never reveals the nasty rumor about P., and this is just one of several bits of withheld information in the story. Disclosure, or its lack, both shapes the story and is the subject of this ...