
Category: Writing advice
Writing can be a skill some are born with; however, they still need to develop that skill. For others, we can learn the rhetorical devices and skills of being a good writer.


World Building Starts Outside Your Window

Two Drops of Ink Writing Services – Coming Soon…

An Editor is a Bone Collector

Why Is Unique Content So Difficult to Write?

The Modern Writer: How Feasible is Writing as a Full-Time Job?

Your Headline: Will It Grab My Attention?

Are You Attracting Your Right Reader?

The Soft Science of the Summary

Writers, What’s Your Biggest Challenge?

Memoir: White Rain, Penny Candy and Crooked Politicians

Arcing, Enhancing, and Advancing the Memoir

B4 U Publish, Edit Your Writing

Stop Over-Explaining; I Get It!

Is Your Blog Bogged Down?

Is Your Writing Home Cookin’ or Haute Cuisine?

Organic Talent or Did You Have to Learn to Write?

Writing a Memoir of Restoration, Renewal, and Rediscovery

Memoir: Linear Stories or Hither and Yon?

2020: Join the Collaboration at Two Drops of Ink

Voice: Have You Found Yours? Is Mine There, Too?

What If No One Reads This? OMG, What If They Do?

The Energy of the Personal Blog

Water and Words: Ebbing and Flowing

Writing Time: We All Get the Same 24/7/365

Swoopers and Bashers and Words! Oh, My!

Productive Talks with your Developmental Editor

SACRED PAPER

Publishing? Which Way Do You Go?

Take a Risk: Write More than “What You Know”

Small Towns: Big Inspirations

How Writing Every Morning Has Skyrocketed My Creativity

Three Thoughts on Language in Kindness and Writing

Embrace the Blank

Finding a Topic

Impressions, Words, and Power: Time to Expand

4 Ways to Make Your Writing Easier

Let the Baby Cry

Don’t Give Up – You Could Have the Next Gatsby

NINE LESSONS RELUCTANTLY LEARNED FROM PUBLISHING MY FIRST BOOK

Do published books make you an expert in your subject?

CONSIDER THE ESSAY

Taking the Leap of Faith: From Communication to Conversation

WRITERS READ BECAUSE WHY?

WHAT DAMPENS YOUR FIRE? One Answer: Neglecting It

Don’t Be Afraid to Use Me!

ADMISSION: I AM A PROMPT SNOB

Turn Your Creative Works into Career Boosters

John Powers writes about writing: UBG (Ultimate Bad Guy), RH (Reluctant Hero), WWG (Woman with a Gun), or DD (Dude who Dies) and so much more
