Did you know that research shows that 64% of statistics are lies? Most people never give a thought to the perils of “credentialed” authors, the title “PhD”, or the phrase “research shows.” Joe Smith reads a magazine article about a recent social study promoting all-day child care as more beneficial than old-fashioned parenting and nods…
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For Screen Junkie Writers
WriterKata.com is a website I happened to stumble upon the other day. Taking you through short but escalating exercises, it tones your writing muscles in the same way push-ups tone the abdominals. Each section of exercises forms a kata cycle. The first part of the cycle throws sentence challenges at you, such as: “Write a…
That Lady – she makes me cry.
In China town, shops are filled with cheap odds and ends. Lucky cats wave you in and out of store after store as you buy more and more. Today I was hit with a sadness. That Lady – the one in the shop – the one with the frizzy, thinning hair and the pasty face….
How to be a Good Writer
Writing is immensely important. And it is honed by practice. Throughout my short life, I’ve found a few methods to improve my writing, first in quantity then in quality. 1.) Journal Keeping. QUANTITY Don’t freak out as you read this. Immediately, the association pops to mind of that middle school book with a cheap lock on it,…