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.
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
But, Have YOU Written It? A Writing Challenge
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?
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
