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?
Writing
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.
Keeping your writing to yourself?
Shipping the work always feels risky, awakening the demons of doubt. Here are three ways to get past them.
Writing In Disguise
It’s October, and that means Halloween is coming! In that spirit, this month’s writing exercise is to pick a costume—write in disguise!
Review of Says Who? by Anne Curzan
If you’ve ever despaired over where to put commas or felt guilty about accidentally misplacing an apostrophe, you need this book. If you climb up onto your high horse when you spot “incorrect” capitalization or split infinitives in others’ work, you also need this book.