Editor's note: This article was reviewed and updated in July 2026 to meet Expert Editor's latest editorial standards. Only 25% of people believe they're living up to their creative potential. You may think there isn't a lot you can do about this. You're either born with creativity or not, right? We've ...Read More
Editor's note: This article was reviewed and updated in July 2026 to meet Expert Editor's latest editorial standards. We often write to meet deadlines or because we have ambitions to become published authors. But how often do we write for the sheer pleasure of it? How often do we throw ...Read More
Editor's note: This article was reviewed and updated in July 2026 to meet Expert Editor's latest editorial standards. Ernest Hemingway's famous advice was to "write drunk, edit sober". Alcohol and writing certainly have a reputation as bedfellows, with famed authors Edgar Allan Poe, Truman Capote, and Hemingway himself, being ...Read More
Editor's note: This article was reviewed and updated in July 2026 to meet Expert Editor's latest editorial standards. If you're a writer, it's likely you've spent at least a few minutes fantasising about what it would be like to see your work skyrocket to the top of the bestseller ...Read More
Editor's note: This article was reviewed and updated in July 2026 to meet Expert Editor's latest editorial standards. Making a full-time living as a writer is no easy task, even for the most prolific and talented scribblers. Many a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author slogged away at a ...Read More
Editor's note: This article was reviewed and updated in July 2026 to meet Expert Editor's latest editorial standards. George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language, published in 1946, is a battle cry in the fight against bad English. In Orwell's eyes, written English has become slovenly, vague and meaningless, ...Read More