If you tried to take every bit of writing advice, applying all of it as you write, you'd never complete any writing project.
So don't.
As you write, write.
Don't try to craft. Crafting comes later.
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We all remember our high school research papers. Twelve or so pages of regurgitated facts, figures, and quotes. And completely devoid of voice. To describe them as boring would be an...
This past week in our Roadtrippers community, one of our writers asked about my thoughts on Grammerly, an A.I. (artificial intelligence) driven app that helps writers with grammar and basic...
“I have a manuscript, but is it ready for submission?”
Maybe. Maybe not.
There’s no magical formula for what will catch an editor’s attention. Sometimes editors just follow...
Just this morning, Melissa and I interviewed a free-lance journalist who writes for the New York Times. Our conversation with Melinda Wenner Moyer will be one of our next podcast episodes.
Melinda...
Last week, I discussed the importance of curiosity - and how it helps us become observers of human behavior.
Observation is one of our great tools for writing.
We observe human behavior (the...
“I have an idea for a memoir. But I don’t know how to structure it. What do I do?”
A memoir, like any book, needs to be structured. It needs to provide a compelling story and...
William Faulkner, the great American writer from the first half of the twentieth century, once said:.
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination ...”...
If you've ever written anything longer than a typical blog (800 words of less), you've had to agonize over structure.
Structuring a piece of longform writing is the bane of every writer.
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You've probably heard these terms:
Developmental edit
Line edit
Copy edit
Proofing
Today, I want to explain what a...
Didn’t you hear? Humans have the attention span of a goldfish.
The statement may be a stretch (even though Ted Lasso made us all believe it’s an immutable truth!), but the idea behind...
What if I told you that your dream will come true and you’ll publish a book?
Now, what if I told you it will take 14 years before you get published?
That’s bittersweet, right?...
