Try This Writing Prompt to Get the Creative Juices Flowing!
Writers working on projects that are destined to be published—to be read—can struggle with nerves. We edit our words before
Ep 171: [Interview] Shawn Smucker on Cowriting, Ghostwriting, and Prioritizing Your Own Work
At a writing conference held October 12 and 13, 2018, I interviewed three authors who served on the speaking team.
Ep 170: How to Be a Better Writer (Pt 5) – Four Writing Tips
Last time, we talked about the 6+1 Traits. When you take time to evaluate your work in each one, you
How to Be a Better Writer: Boost All 7 Traits of Great Writing
I’m glad to be back after an unexpected and lengthy break when I needed to care for a relative during
Ep 168: How to Be a Better Writer (Pt 3): Write Tight
In a recent release of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell introduces his podcast listeners to Dr. Bernadine Healy. In this episode,
Ep 167: How to Be a Better Writer (Pt 2): 3 Simple Tweaks You Can Try Today
Last week I talked about the mindset that believes growth is possible—that you are neither stuck at your current level
Ep 166: How to Be a Better Writer (Pt 1): Start with the Right Mindset
Last week, we started to explore a fear that haunts many writers, which is the fear that they aren’t good
Ep 107: Learn from the Best: Copywork for Grownups
Children used to be assigned copywork so they could practice penmanship and be exposed to great poetry, sayings, and passages
Ep 106: Learn from the Best – Imitate but Don’t Plagiarize
Are you a carnivorous reader? Francine Prose says in Reading Like a Writer: I’ve heard the way a writer reads
Ep 91: Your Writing Needs Revision (but don’t be afraid)
Style, for example, is not—can never be—extraneous Ornament…. [I]f you here require a practical rule of me, I will present
Ep 88: How to Develop Your Own Self-Study Writing Course
As you go about the work of writing, and the business of writing, don’t forget to study the craft of
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Writers: Style Still Matters
“Style still matters,” Steven Pinker insists in the prologue to The Sense of Style. He lists three reasons style matters:
#78: Your Best Material – The Practice of Remembering
This week I want to encourage you to dip into memories and memoir. Even though this veers from the more
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Bradbury Quote: without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer
In Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury warns us not to get distracted by the commercial market or by