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Donald Miller I used to play golf but I wasn’t very good. I rented a DVD, though, that taught me a better way to swing, and after watching it a few times and spending an hour or so practicing, I knocked ten strokes off my game.
Read These Seven Books, and You’ll be a Better Writer
When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview , Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult.
25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer
The Age of the Essay
September 2004 Remember the essays you had to write in high school? Topic sentence, introductory paragraph, supporting paragraphs, conclusion.
If there is one thing college kids neglect the most, besides basic diet and hygiene, it’s the homework assignment essay. Hastily written and utterly unedited the night before it’s due, the modern essay has become something of a nightmare for lackadaisical college students.
"How To Bullshit Your Way Through Any Essay" by K W Schroeder - CollegeHumor Article
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) offers another useful set of character profiles that you can use to jumpstart a character for your novel. There are sixteen different types.
Character Creation Made Easy, Pick a Personality-Method 6-MBTI Profiles | Learn to Write Fiction
Ten Common Fallacies Everyone Should Know
When a statement is considered true because it's made by someone who is considered an "authority" on the topic. Structure: Source A says that "Q" is true.Eight Secrets Which Writers Won’t Tell You
Image from Flickr by LazuriteCopyright © 1995 by C.J. Cherryh Copy and pass “Writerisms and other Sins” around to your heart’s content, but always post my Copyright notice at the top, correctly, thank you, as both a courtesy and a legal necessity to protect any writer. Writerisms : overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush. Tags: C.J.
Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing
The entire writing process is fraught with perils.