3 Ways Senses Can Improve Your Writing
Here are some of the ways using all five senses can enhance your descriptive writing.
Birthday Writing Prompts
In honor of this writer’s birthday (and birthday obsession), here are three birthday-inspired writing prompts.
3 Email Etiquette Rules to Help You Write the Perfect Email
We use email every day. For work. For fun. For love letters.
It’s so easy. The standards are so low. Even at work—the standards are lower than other forms of communication.
But you’re a writer. And as a writer, you have the unique ability to make your emails stand out among the masses. You are capable of crafting the perfect email.
How to Improve Your Descriptive Writing
In the New York Review of Books, Zadie Smith describes the Italian painting “Man Carrying Corpse on His Shoulders” in the detailed way that we writers try to describe the images in our heads. When I read it, it led to a kind of an epiphany–like “oh, that’s how you do it.”
Are You an Indulgent Writer?
I was in the third grade when I received my first journal. And, while I couldn’t articulate at the time, that was when I discovered writing as mechanism to self-soothe. Writing helped me, and it still does.
But that doesn’t mean my journals are worth reading. When I’m journaling, I’m an “indulgent writer.”
