If you’d like to bring your story to life in a tight space — say, 500 words or less — try traveling back in time to your 3rd or 4th grade classroom. Back then, your teacher most likely instructed you ...

This is a chef. He's not going to make food though. No. He is going to make a poem. Stop that! The main ingredient in a poem is words. Poems can be about anything: They can tell a story, Or they can ...

Voltaire did it in bed, on his mistress’s back. Churchill did it while standing and walking. Benjamin Franklin liked it in the bathtub. Hobbes did it on his bedsheets while locked away; when he had ...

Come back with me now to the classroom, to that inevitable September day when the teacher would gaze benignly at the class and casually issue the edict that had been anticipated with fear and loathing ...

If you’d like to bring your story to life in a tight space — say, 500 words or less — try traveling back in time to your 3rd or 4th grade classroom. Back then, your teacher most likely instructed you ...