How To Be A Better Writer – A Haven for Readers and Those Who Want to ...

Ran across a self-help article advising the best way to improve “a slow writing process” is to begin by dictating your content and “begin the writing phase with the transcription.” The first thing, according to the article’s author, is to ask yourself...

Do you suppose there is some guy “out there” stuck with the actual moniker Walter Mitty, the hapless character created by James Thurber for a New Yorker piece back in 1939? Unwitting parents sometimes tag their newborns with names that later prove a...

Halloween provides a good segue into the important secondary meaning of the literary term “point of view.” Traditionally, point of view comes in three flavors: first, second, and third person, and refers to the perspective from which a story or novel...

This is very hush, hush. Let word of this slip out and in the dark of night (as if there is another kind of night!) the gremlins will sneak in and put glue in your typewriter, or worse yet, your brain, and any ideas will get stuck there and die a horrible...