Should you ever desire to elevate your writing far beyond the oft-trampled pastures of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, then I boldly dare you to snap up a copy of Arthur Plotnik’s Spunk and Bite. Don’t get me wrong— there are well-established reasons why Strunk and White’s tidy field manual on writing has been around since […]
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This post goes out to many of the talented but “hidden” writer-blogger friends out there: the ones who either write like crazy but never publish, or publish but refuse to identify themselves. You know who you are. Let’s face it, mystery writer—you’re scared of something. You’re scared of owning your ideas, of attaching your name […]
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If you’re a serious web publisher of any kind I recommend you immediately read “Nimble: a Razorfish report on publishing in the digital age” by Rachel Lovinger. It’s an excellent, transformative and highly creative treatise on the future of digital publishing. The bottom line on Nimble is this: make your content available anywhere and everywhere […]
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Does writing come natural to you or do you make clichéd excuses and watered-down reasons why you’re not doing it everyday? For this post, let’s throw your writing a curveball. Here are some not-so-typical reasons why it’s worth the daily discipline and persistence: Producing feels better than consuming. Writing is an act of production, and while […]
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It doesn’t take much to see how shamefully little I’ve been posting here, and I want to address this because I feel many of us suffer from the same blog starvation-atrophy affliction. Here’s the problem: we still think we’re in college English class. Yes, that one: dialectic thesis statements, multiple drafts, red ink editing, rewriting and other rigors of […]
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