Unknotting a beautiful poem
How I untangle a beautiful poem to see how it’s made. Oh, and the beautiful poem itself.
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…
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….
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…
The audience and the author
When I was 14, I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction. I published a chapter about once a week and then…
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…
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…
You are bumptious and I am lachrymose
In my last year of High School, my AP English teacher had us learn 10 new words a week….
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…