Yana ’s latest post, Is Listening to Audio Books “Cheating?” has started me thinking. It’s a good thing, too, because she is starting to ge...

I used to think so. I’m somewhat of a book purist (some would say snob), and I tend to prefer my books the traditional way, in print. No fan...

2 Originally uploaded by yanasphotos The tea is not made of ice (not "ice tea" like "peach tea") but put over ice; there...

The other day while sitting in a meeting at work, I had an idea for a blog. I was watching a coworker take notes on the meeting—longhand. Ye...

As writers, we use a variety of resources to help us do our work: dictionaries, thesauruses, style manuals, reference materials, Wikipedia, ...

It's September, and students everywhere are back in school. This year, I almost counted myself among their ranks again. Almost... Since...

Last weekend my husband and I saw Julie and Julia , a movie about a blogger who cooked her way through Julia Child's classic French cook...

In general, I pride myself on my finely-honed grasp of ordinary language, its meanings, and implications. Recently, however, my confidence w...

Today is the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Charley, one of the most destructive hurricanes to hit Florida in recent memory and one of t...

In a typical day, we might write in a variety of styles, including a business email, a grocery list, a blog, or a status update on a social ...

After a brief (ahem) hiatus, we are back. Seriously. I feel newly inspired to write about writing lately, and hopefully we'll both be a ...

Careful writers always take into consideration those essential elements that when ignored lead to poor writing. The components of poor writi...

Here is a poem that I believe illustrates Yana's point in the following post. I am borrowing it from The Complete Idiot's Guide to G...

I am an editor. I read a lot. And I often find mistakes in the things I read, from books to newspaper articles to cereal boxes. I know that ...

I blog because it’s enjoyable. I blog because I want to write something every day. I blog because I want to let others know that I am here. ...

When I was in college, I wrote a lot of papers. Some were academic; some were creative. The process usually went something like this: 1. Get...

Writer’s Block is nothing compared to the barricade I am standing behind. Take a moment to imagine, if you will, my obstruction. A giant pur...

My daughter is entering her junior year in high school, so the “what do you want to be when you grow up?” discussion came up the other day. ...

You put forth an interesting question, Hayley, though a difficult one. Putting a definition on something, as you say, is very limiting, so l...

“Well, somebody has to do that job!” is the common response I often receive after explaining, to the best of my ability, the profession I ha...

In his work, The Phaedrus , Plato offers insight into his teacher’s views on writing. Socrates: Writing, you know, Phaedrus , has this stra...

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