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Why You Need to Develop a Biliterate Brain — and How to Do It
The average American spends more than 6 hours a day reading digitally. We need to develop bilateral brains to process information.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 18, 20205 min read


What Valuable Advice Can You Gift to Other Writers?
When you attend a book signing, ask writers to inscribe their books with one condensed piece of writing wisdom.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 17, 20203 min read


Charlotte Perkins Gilman Dies by Suicide
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," commits suicide by inhaling chloroform on this on August 17, 1935.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 17, 20201 min read


The Data-Backed Case for Ditching Adverbs
Is the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Data analysis proved that Stephen King was right. The best writing has few adverbs.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 14, 20205 min read


Writers, Hoaxes, and the Psychology of Fraud
What makes writers commit literary fraud? The Education of Little Tree, A Million Little Pieces, Misha, Angel at the Fence are all hoaxes.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 14, 20206 min read


Worried About Literacy Today? Lessons from Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture
Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 14, 20204 min read


Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
Brilliant Maps delivers a zinger to your mind in the form of infographic-maps. Easy to see and quick to decipher in bold, boisterous color.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 13, 20203 min read


4 Unexpected Ways to Support Indie Bookstores
If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 13, 20204 min read


How a Woman of No Importance Won a War and Changed the World
The French Resistance was organized by Virginia Hall, a spy - and amputee-- who provided valuable intelligence during WWII.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 12, 20205 min read


Guaranteed Good Reads for the Rest of the Year
We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 12, 20205 min read


5 Time Zones of Productive Writers
Writers experience time differently than others. Here's how to make the most of the 5 time zones of productive writers.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 8, 20204 min read


The Great Poet Ern Malley (Who Never Existed)
Ern Malley's poetry was an elaborate hoax, but because of an editor's backing. Malley's work gained acclaim.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 7, 20205 min read


What Writers Need to Know About Readability
Copywriters are instructed to write at the sixth grade level. Short, simple, and - well - dumber. Even fiction is simpler than before.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 6, 20205 min read


It’s Not Magic! Good Writing is the Result of Training
Award-winning, note-worthy writers train daily, love language, and have the persistence to keep going even in the face of rejection.

Melissa Gouty
Aug 6, 20205 min read


Everyone Dies Famous
Len Joy's Everyone Dies Famous draws on the cherished tradition of small-town literature where lives overlap, circle, and collide daily.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 29, 20203 min read


Focus on the Fun to Win the Writing Race
Writers shouldn't forget the fun factor. When the act of writing doesn’t make them happy, it’s impossible to be successful.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 28, 20203 min read


5 Fascinating Facts About Books That Will Surprise and Delight You
Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt is crammed with hundreds of fascinating facts about reading and writing. Here are five.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 28, 20205 min read


How Compassionate Problem-Solving Leads To Profit-Building
Richard Drew's compassionate problem-solving was at the crux of innovation, not the amount of time he spent working on it.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 23, 20206 min read


If Bestselling Authors Do It, Shouldn't You?
The semicolon doesn't work for copywriting, but it's a light-saber for word-warriors in essays, articles, and story-telling.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 23, 20204 min read


Why Rising to a Challenge Makes You More Creative
Rising to a challenge, stimulates ideas, strengthens creative muscle, and gives you repeatable, significant results.

Melissa Gouty
Jul 23, 20203 min read
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