As a writer, you should commit murder every day. More importantly, you should be learning to enjoy it. It should be painless, quick and satisfying for you. The end result should provide a clear, final path to your end goal – that being, to print or pixelate. How and...
It’s writing to sell. I know, I know ….. many of you now think that as a writer I’ve just sworn, committed a mortal sin or both. You may think that persuasion and selling have nothing to do with one another – that they are diametrically opposed. One is gentle,...
A paragraph is a meaningful, purposeful gathering of sentences. They are placed together in the order that you need to make – persuade, explore, sell, substantiate – a point. Regardless of the audience – fiction, descriptive, argumentative, expository,...
To write well is to make your sentences well. Fundamentally whatever you want to write, it’s sentences that you’re going to need to master. If you think of writing as a continual movement between the big picture and the small; then each sentence is the...
We’ve all been there. Someone decides to use lots of big, long words to make them feel more intelligent. After all, it is a widely held belief that the more long words used, the more intelligent you sound. But sometimes it makes you the listener or...
