Salon advice columnist Cary Tennis really earned his paycheck this week. In this week’s edition of “Since You Asked,” an aspiring writer asks the question all journalists ask themselves when ...

Crap, meaning defecate, is British slang that may derive from the older French word, meaning chaff or refuse. Craps, on the other hand, is probably a corruption of “crabs,” the name of a dice ...

If you're having trouble getting started with your writing, do what you're afraid to do: write like crap. As one reddit user points out, writing like crap is acceptable during the early stages.

She may have attended four universities, but Sarah Palin still writes like an eighth-grader, our Christine Roberts reports: AOL Weird News gave two writing analytic companies samples of the former ...

A recent post on Above the Law offers an interesting analysis of the unhelpful writing technique called "the pile 'o crap syndrome." First-year law students use it because they don't know what's ...

On Writing and Failure isn't your standard meditation on the art and nobility of writing as a profession; instead, author Stephen Marche argues writers should be prepared to fail — again and again.