However, if we want to grow and stretch our voices, we should tune our ears to other writer’s voices and pay attention to what we find.

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.

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?

As readers, we approach a blog post or article differently than a book—a shift that every writer should understand.

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.