False starts, half-written pieces, and scattered notebooks are the messy and necessary detritus of a creative life. Wisdom lies in knowing which of those projects to carry through to completion.
Writing Yoga: The Gift of Writing
What if you treat the act of writing as a gift to share with people you care about? A way to form a fleeting connection with words?
What Readers Need from Blogs vs. Books
As readers, we approach a blog post or article differently than a book—a shift that every writer should understand.
Sparking curiosity with headlines
Headline writers often entice us to click by creating what’s called a knowledge gap, making us think that there’s something that we don’t know that we now want to know.
A Field Guide? To Reading?
A few years ago, I set out to crack the code behind what made my favorite nonfiction writers so powerful. I wanted to know why their words stuck with me and what I could learn from them as a writer. That journey turned into Writing to Be Understood: What Works and Why. To my surprise, […]
Keeping your writing to yourself?
Shipping the work always feels risky, awakening the demons of doubt. Here are three ways to get past them.