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Apr 02
The 5 Writing Skills A.I. Will Never Replace
Mar 22
The Grammar of Experience: M.A.K. Halliday's Writing System for Carving a Figure from the Flow of Change
Mar 21
The Senses Were Never Separate: David Abram on Perception, Presence, and the Art of Description
Mar 21
The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
Mar 19
Put Your Ideas Where Readers Expect Them
Mar 19
"Weirdly Plausible:" Adam Gopnik on Why The Matrix Still Lives in Our Heads
Mar 19
The Unreal Thing - Adam Gopnik (2003)
Mar 18
Tollbooth Syndrome: George Gopen on Communication and the Real Purpose of Writing
Mar 17
Swing and a Miss: George Gopen Explains Why Your Ideas Don't Land
Mar 16
The Coffee Stain Problem: Why You Can't Read Your Own Writing
Mar 14
Write in Fractals
Mar 14
The Big Picture: Give Readers the Map Before the Terrain
Mar 14
Problems that Make Readers Care
Mar 14
Emphasis: Save the Best for Last
Mar 14
Coherence: Make Your Sentences Add Up to Something
Mar 14
Flow: Connect Your Sentences with Old-Before-New
Mar 13
Zombie Nouns: Know When to Break the Rule
Mar 13
Put the Action in the Verb
Mar 13
Spotlight Your Main Characters
Mar 10
Introduction to Functional Grammar - M.A.K. Halliday
Mar 10
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities - Stanley Fish
Mar 09
Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader's Perspective - George D. Gopen
Mar 09
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace - Joseph M. Williams
Feb 23
The Top 1% of Experts Think on Paper—Here's How
Feb 20
He emailed me with a writing problem... then solved it himself
Feb 15
The EM Dash Panic—Explained!
Feb 09
Writing that Works: Longer Sentences, the Passive Voice, and Two Dangers of Mindless Writing Rules
Feb 01
Strategic Repetition: Improve the Clarity of Your Writing by Repeating Key Terms (without sounding repetitive)
Jan 29
How Modern Schools Make Terrible Writers (deliberately)
Jan 25
Autistic Writing: 3 Writing Exercises to Connect with Readers (and how 'Write the Way You Speak' misses the point)
Jan 19
How to Articulate Your Thoughts More Clearly than 99% of Writers
Jan 12
I Analysed 100 Opening Paragraphs. Here's What Makes Readers Obsessed.
Jan 05
9 Techniques for Clearer Writing (I Wish I Knew Sooner)
Nov 11
How to write so well readers stop scrolling
Oct 26
I wish I knew this before I started writing online
Oct 24
Essay Club
Oct 24
The Braindead Megaphone - GEORGE SAUNDERS
Oct 22
Getting Your Readers Involved
Oct 22
Part I: The Braindead Megaphone
Oct 19
The Single Worst Piece of Writing Advice
Oct 15
Let's Try Something New
Oct 14
Opening Thoughts on "The Braindead Megaphone"
Sep 27
I’m an Editor, these are the 7 First-Draft Mistakes I Fix All the Time
Sep 27
Expert Writing Checklist
Sep 26
Your Fear of Writing: Eight Strategies to Help You Get Unstuck
Sep 03
Essays that transform everyday experience into valuable writing
Sep 03
Why Your Best Ideas Fall Flat
Sep 02
The novelist helping nonfiction writers become thought leaders
Aug 26
How to Write Creative NonFiction
Aug 20
Your writing dies in the first two paragraphs. Here's why.