Editor's note: This piece includes the repeated use of a racial slur. We all have personal memories and stories, and documenting them in writing can be a way to preserve and revisit milestones from ...

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Leslie Gray Streeter wrote “Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like ‘Journey’ in the Title” because it’s the book she needed when she became ...

Every time someone told me, "You should write a book!" I'd smile and change the subject. Because I wanted to - I just had no idea where to start, and even less time to try. But all that changed when I ...

Ahh. All those dots. The ones that connect the people, events, smiles, tears, and the joys of life—your life. But who would be privy to them unless you sat them down and told them about the highlights ...

For more than 20 years, I’ve been teaching writing for healing and transformation. I continually remind my students of the importance of enjoying the writing journey and not focusing too much on the ...

One writing scholar is sounding the alarm on a growing trend among college students to use AI to help write personal memoirs and essays about their lives. It’s one thing to use AI for research or ...

In 2008, M.J. Flood and his wife, Tara, had a stillborn child. For years, the tragedy left him “emotionally stuck,” even after the births of two daughters, Charlotte, now 13, and Judith, now 9, Flood ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology Art of Oncology article, "Writing a Medical Memoir: Lessons From a Long, Steep Road” by David Marks, consultant at University Hospitals Bristol NHS ...

Outlining will make you a more effective writer. Start doing it every time you write. I know what you’re thinking. When you hear the word “outline” in the context of writing, your mind probably goes ...