When we think about relationships, we tend to think about our connections with others—our partners, friends, family members, and co-workers. This post focuses on a relationship that often gets ...

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

Get your creativity nice and limber by loosening up any ideas you have in your head. Did you know that your brain is a muscle? Or maybe you’re thinking of your skin? For a writing warmup, spend ...

Dr. Karin Ryan from Nystrom & Associates explains how writing things down (even if no one else will ever see it ) can be helpful to your emotional well-being. These three writing exercises are simple ...

If you ever felt the urge to write but found yourself held back by a nagging voice of doubt? What if you could silence that voice and let your creativity flow freely? Many writing beginners struggle ...

Trauma differs for everyone — it's caused by varying events or experiences one has gone through — and there are instances where it may progress into post-traumatic stress disorder. Licensed mental ...

We often receive requests from members for exercises that can help them improve specific aspects of their writing. The most crucial element of any successful sitcom or comedy drama is its characters.

The CWA writing courses are open to any undergraduate at Northwestern who has met the prerequisite of having already taken one writing-intensive course at Northwestern. They are taught by Visiting ...