Commentary: Usually, coming up with an opener takes so much effort I take the rest of the day off. But running up against a ...

Writing can be an albatross around the neck. Or it can be an adventure of great expectations leading to profitable ends. For Alex Z. Salinas, writing is a wild roller-coaster ride with its curvy ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

This is fun. No, really, it is. A peek behind the curtain. I’ve often been asked what the difference is in writing about sports and writing about religion, the Latter-day Saint faith in particular.

Re “The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing,” Commentary, May 20: I vehemently disagree with Crispin Sartwell’s characterization of the five-paragraph essay as “hoo-ha.” While he explains that ...

The most gratifying thing about writing these commentaries is the feedback I get. It doesn’t matter if the feedback is positive, or negative (though I like the positive kind better). Feedback tells me ...

Students entering their first year of law school are frequently shocked by the feedback they receive on the first assignment they turn in for their introductory Legal Writing course. Often, these ...