If I was really cool and planned ahead more, I would have posted this closer to Martin Luther King Day. Oh well. In Writing Tools , Roy Pe...

I'm going to interrupt this Writing Tools flow with a writer's book review, partially to shake things up and partially because my a...

What I wrote down: Active verbs move the action and reveal the actors. Passive verbs emphasize the receiver, the victim. The verb "to ...

I am finally getting around to discussing my notes from Roy Peter Clark's Writing Tools . It's sure taken me long enough, hasn't...

The day I tried to Google "average length of a letter" and found only results related to cover letters and font sizes, I realized ...

I had the privilege a year ago to be the principal editor of T.S. Lowe's now-published book Out of Duat , a historical fantasy for a mid...

A young man once was on a journey through the forested mountains where the elks and salmon live, and because he was hungry, he climbed the t...