As 2025 rolls around, spelling yet another year of reading about writing and writing about reading, we asked the Star Books and Literature family to share their top writing tips for our readers.

At the same time, vary sentence length While short should be the most frequent structure, writing with nothing but ... even consider trying to end on a good, stressed syllable.

It’s one of the most important jobs a man can do in his lifetime, so the pressure to be the best “Best Man” is enormous. Nowhere is this truer than for the best man’s speech. This daunting ...

In 1982, the late founder of the Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency David Ogilvy issued a memo of 10 incredible writing tips to his staff. Known as "the father of advertising," Ogilvy made sure ...