Dived or Dove? That Is the Question
Ah, the English language—a glorious mishmash of borrowed words, baffling idioms, and grammar rules that seem to have been drafted during a
Keeping a Log Book: Your Essential Tool for Writing Compelling Travel Articles
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How to Write When You Have No Idea What to Write
Writing is good, right? If you do it, it means you’re a writer. If you don’t, it means you’re a wannabe. Even
How Copying Others’ Writing Can Improve Your Own
I’m a big fan of copying others’ work in order to learn how to do something new, or do something better. I
The Audience and the Author
When I was 14, I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction. I published a chapter about once a week and then waited with bated
Even For Pro Writers No Punctuation is A Okay
My favorite, curl-in-the-couch-and-eat-ice-cream feeling blogs have one thing in common: they almost entirely ignore formal grammar and punctuation rules. They misspell words.
The Impossible Task: “Deep Blogging” on the Go
There are many reasons I’ve written so little on this website, chief of which is that I simply can’t upload a post
Website Traffic on the Brain? Your Writing Sucks
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot more about website traffic. How many people are coming to our site? How many social referrals
The Writer’s Relationship with Time
Yesterday, I came across a letter that Charles Dickens wrote to Maria Winter in 1855 – a woman with whom Dickens had
On Writing
If Maggie Stiefvater (a very famous and brilliant YA author) can reuse Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ title on her own blog, I
Delete: A Writer’s Best Friend
In May 2010, I was 10,000 words shy of completing a 40,000 word dissertation that would culminate in an MA in Fiction
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