by Joe Bunting |
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...
by Joe Bunting |
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,...
by Joe Bunting |
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...
by Joe Bunting |
As you discover your voice, you notice you like to write things a certain way. You use certain words a lot. You employ similar grammatical structures again and again. You regularly write from one point of view. Recently, I've noticed I'm falling into first person...
by Joe Bunting |
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...
