By experimenting with other types of writing, you reinforce the broader sense of yourself as a real writer—whatever that means to you.

Did you know that the average American reads at a seventh- or eighth-grade level? Depending on what you’re writing and how many people you hope to reach, you might want to pitch your writing voice to that level.

It’s time to talk about dummy subjects—when “it” and “there” stand in for an undetermined subject in a sentence.

When editing an author’s work, I look closely at paragraph decisions, because they definitely affect the reader’s experience and the author’s voice.

What if we approach our writing objectives as a series of experiments through which we learn and grow?

While we could talk all day about sentence structures, let’s start with the easiest variable to control: length.