Starting a new piece of writing can be daunting: It’s just you, your thoughts and that incessantly blinking cursor.

“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” —Rebecca Solnit

These touchstones guide all our writing and editing work—and we think you’ll find them useful too.

It’s been a tumultuous few months in the financial markets and economy. Readers are looking for you and your content to provide clarity.

The world is complicated. It turns out that curiosity about the world and how it works is a great antidote to the overwhelm.

Good writing is timeless (or at least we’d like to think so).

We get by with a little help from our friends. (OK, a lot of help.)

We’re always grateful when our clients set us up to succeed. Take this anecdote of how a client prepped our writer for a thorny call.

Every writer has little weaknesses—words, phrases, sentence structures or even punctuation that we rely on a little too often.

We’ve learned a lot over the last 27 years about what to look for and what to avoid. Here are four key lessons.