
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.


Writers, What’s Your Biggest Challenge?

Memoir: White Rain, Penny Candy and Crooked Politicians

Arcing, Enhancing, and Advancing the Memoir

But, Have YOU Written It? A Writing Challenge

Edit and Proofread B4 U Publish

Stop Over-Explaining; I Get It!

What’s Bogging Down Your Blog?

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: 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?

Seven Cautions Before You Start a Column

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

Are You Looking for Your Voice in All The Wrong Places?

REMEMBER WHY YOU WRITE

How Corporate America Assaults the English Language

WHAT FUELS YOUR FIRE? ONE ANSWER: GOODREADS

Writing Tips: Don’t Let Difficulties With Research Hold Back Your Writing

Finding Writing Inspiration In The Present And The Past
