A year ago I wrote an essay for the New York Times titled “The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth.” It argued that authors express their most important ideas or dramatic moments in the shortest sentences.

(Editor’s note: “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times” is the fourth in a series of writing and language books written by Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown, beginning ...

Whether you identify as one or not, everyone is a writer. Between social networks, dating profiles, blogs, and the day-to-day tasks of most jobs, writing is an essential skill. In How to Write Short, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new MIT study shows sentences linger in memory when their meanings stand apart. The brain remembers ideas best when they are ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

Why is it that the impulse to make art is so quickly replaced by hope that the creating will come easily? Some day, we think, writing will just flow. Verlyn Klinkenborg is here to tell you that "flow ...