Whenever we write for other people that writing becomes a vehicle for our intentions. Those intentions definitely color the writing voice. This month’s exercise will jar you out of any writing ruts by asking you to turn those intentions on their head.
Is it time to branch out in your writing?
By experimenting with other types of writing, you reinforce the broader sense of yourself as a real writer—whatever that means to you.
How readable is your writing?
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.
The Case of the Missing Subject
It’s time to talk about dummy subjects—when “it” and “there” stand in for an undetermined subject in a sentence.
Writing Voice: Paragraph Patterns
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.
Tiny Writing Experiments
What if we approach our writing objectives as a series of experiments through which we learn and grow?