Kelly Hanson is a PhD candidate in English at Indiana University, Bloomington. You can find her on Twitter at @krh121910. Everybody writes differently, but most of us use the same software: Microsoft ...

Douglas Adams came up with the following rules about the way we react to new technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the ...

Writing tools that won't try and do the writing for you ...

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

WriterDuet is a free cloud screenwriting software. It comes with some advanced tools that help you write professional screenplays. You don’t have to focus on the formatting; just write your script and ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...