In the Beginning
Are you ready to spin a good origin tale? This week, we ask you to invent (or reinvent) a creation myth.
Are you ready to spin a good origin tale? This week, we ask you to invent (or reinvent) a creation myth.
What’s your blogging style? From diction to rhythm to imagery to sentence structure, explore some of the writing elements that make you YOU.
I’ve always thought that Edgar Allan Poe was a little overrated. That is, because he writes stories of a gothic…
A lot of people think of reading Moby-Dick as a chore, even if they’ve never tried in earnest. It has…
Having closed out my grammar series, I’m now starting up a new series of posts in which I’ll share an…
For nearly two years, I’ve written posts about grammar and usage, so clearly it’s a topic that I think is…
Without reruns, I would never have known the joys of Gilligan’s Island and Happy Days, of The Brady Bunch and…
Tasked this week with explaining how to properly use a semicolon, I thought immediately of the poster designed by the…
English usage snobs all over the internet shudder when they hear the word “literally” used to mean its opposite. For…
“Point of view” or “narrative mode” describes the pronouns used when writing a story. At the most basic level, the…
You may have heard of the subjunctive mood. You may even be a little bit afraid of it. But did…
Last week, Cheri featured a Freshly Pressed blog and suggested that apt use of metaphor had contributed to the post’s…