Most people want to become writers for themselves. They enjoyed being introduced to a fictional world by J.K. Rowling or Robert Louis Stevenson or whoever, a world full of adventure and plenty of opportunities to distinguish oneself. They thought it would be cool to...
Michael Hyatt, the Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishing, recently wrote an incredibly popular post (360+ comments!) describing the four disciplines of the heart. We live in a busy, stressful world, he premised. How can people have emotionally healthy lives in such a...
Rules are made to be broken (says the cliché), and Saturdays are as good as any day for rule breaking. This is what we do at the Write Practice. Yesterday, we talked about making nature more human (and therefore relatable) through the use of personification. Today,...
How do you write descriptively while also keeping the reader engaged? Try personification. Personification is a literary device used to describe a non-human thing as having human characteristics. Here is how reader Adriana Willey used personification in response to...
Everyone from Copyblogger to my friend Jeff Goins says that one of the best way for your blog to be successful is to find a unifying theme to write about. For example, this blog focuses on how to improve your creative writing. Pioneer Woman's blog is about how to be...
