Language is an organism: it evolves, accommodates, and shape-shifts depending on the collective culture using it. Some language…
July 18, 2021
One of the reasons creative people are subject to making the most common modern language mistakes in our…
February 3, 2020
by Pascale Potvin Once you’ve completed your book-length draft, that’s when the real work of editing begins. The following…
January 2, 2020
by Pascale Potvin Writer: do you commonly work between 1 Word Doc, 2 spiral notebooks, 4 Post-it notes…
November 28, 2019
Writing is challenging enough, but keeping organized while juggling everything needed to write a long-form book project, academic dissertation,…
October 24, 2019
Photo credit: Jenna Kalinsky, early drafts from essay, in The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt (Penguin). When you’re writing…
June 1, 2019
Is your writing feeling a little dehydrated? Listless? Bland at the center? If so, it may be because it’s…
May 21, 2019
When you begin to revise your nonfiction book, first and foremost, you will need to nail down 3 essential elements…
May 10, 2019
Photo credit: Glenn Carstens by Jenna Kalinsky. In 1935, when up-and-comer Boeing entered their technologically advanced aircraft into a…
April 22, 2019
by Philip Schwadron, Author, It’s Not Hard to Learn the Bard: A Guide to Introducing Shakespeare to Teenagers. One…
January 28, 2019