If you trust the internet, Albert Einstein once said something like “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” On a less-lofty note, the novelist Robert Stone ...

In talking with other writers, I’ve found that I’m a rather rare bird in that I love rewriting my work as much as I love the first heady rush of getting it down on the page. Don’t get me wrong—I love ...

One Tuesday not long ago, I glanced up in between one-on-one student conferences to see my 10th graders hunched over school laptops, typing furiously. I had just left David in the process of fixing ...

To revise your writing, you need to see it through the eyes of a reader — a stranger to the text instead of the creator. Here’s one recipe for revising your work. Have you missed a Coffee Break Course ...

After countless hours devoted to a research project, the act of finally getting a manuscript out the door can feel nothing short of euphoric. That is, until the reviewer responses are returned. While ...

It’s tough to get a room full of writers to agree on anything—the best wine, the best Shakespeare play, the best time of day to work. Perhaps the only belief that today’s writers share is that to ...