Editor’s note: Poynter announced that the newly renamed 2024 Poynter Journalism Prizes will feature a category honoring longtime writing coach Roy Peter Clark and recognizing compelling short writing ...

The theme of Aristotle’s Poetics is not poetry as we now conceive of it, but the imitative arts. The first book treats especially of tragedy and epic poetry. Because the second book addressed comedy, ...

Created by author and physicist Randy Ingermanson, the Snowflake Method provides you with a structured, step-by-step approach ...

The audience that business story writing caters to is usually potential customers or investors. The purpose of the story is to convey a message that lays the foundation for a meaningful connection or ...

Open up any screenwriting book or Google “how to write a script” and you’ll come across a litany of terms both familiar and foreign: “protagonist,” “antagonist,” “beat,” “plot,” “climax,” “inciting ...