Viewing time: 1 minute What’s your most important sentence? Find the line that carries your whole idea, then move it up and make it plain enough to grasp at once. Transcript Here’s a question that changes everything: what’s the most important sentence here? Every piece you write has one.
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Brit Bennett…. Brit Bennett (pictured above) was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from Stanford University. Later,
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Reading time: About 2 minutes If Susan Sokol Blosser ever becomes frustrated with writing, she gives up and goes for a walk or works in the garden or on a puzzle to clear her mind. Susan Sokol Blosser is an Oregon wine industry pioneer, community leader, women’s advocate, and environmental
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Using AI for writing costs more than you think. Research shows five things you lose when a chatbot does the thinking for you. London cab drivers have bigger brains than you do. Well, part of their brains, anyway. In 2000, a neuroscientist named Eleanor Maguire
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to use social media to find new readers… Are you a blogger
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Viewing time: 1 minute First paragraph holding you back? Delete it. Your strong opening often hides in paragraph two, where you stop circling and land… Transcript Want to improve almost anything you write? Delete your first paragraph. I mean it. Go back to your last piece and read it without
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about such writing from Tejal Rao… I have been a bagel fan since 1980. That year, I made a trip to visit a friend in the East,
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Lyndi Allison says many writers underestimate how much patience they’ll need to develop their craft, learn to edit their work and discover how to market it… As a tween, Lyndi Allison would walk miles to borrow books from the bookmobile, then tuck herself into quiet
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Reading time: About 3 minutes How pets can help you write: a cat that enforces a morning routine, plus the science on why kittens make you a sharper editor. The best accountability partner I’ve heard about this year can’t read, doesn’t own a calendar and sleeps 16 hours a day.
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss a post about asynchronous communication… The phrase “asynchronous communication” is a doozy. It sounds academic and dry
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