All television writing can be summed up in one word: economy. TV pilots must communicate the world, characters, genre, stakes, and tone to the audience—all in the span of a single episode. One of the ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Do you have a way with words? You could turn your prowess with pronouns, verbs and adjectives into a lucrative side hustle when ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. By now, you have probably heard of ChatGPT. Students, researchers, businesses and just about everyone can use this innovative software to ...

This story originally appeared in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge newsletter. Subscribe here. When I (Abē Levine) started interning here at NPR, I worked nights as a wedding server. And one thing ...

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m a clear communications expert and Plain Language advocate. I work with people all the time who sound completely different when ...