Leo himself. Pretty intense beard. (Note: This post was written less than an hour after finishing Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina . My ...

I've been thinking about musicals lately and how they work. Most importantly, is there a written equivalent to a "show tune" i...

Today, we discuss endings in honor of the last of the Writing Tools  posts. Roy Peter Clark notes that everything has an ending; sentences...

In Writing Tools , Roy Peter Clark brings up an interesting question: Who is in your writing support group? He argues that every author ha...

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 ...