If you want to write a novel that’s literary as fuck
Then here are some tips from the fucking great Suzanne Reisman.
In which words flow, but not where I need them
The place: The Facebook website thingie. The time: A moment of weakness (escaping from my manuscript). The assignment: “Exercise!!! 250-500-100 …
Piggies for tomorrow
Piggies are for saving! My piggy is Instapaper, Pinboard and Evernote, where I bookmark all the things that my ADD …
I is for Iambic Pentameter
To what domain should I devote my pen? To verse where I betray my ignorance? For I to put these …
H is for Ho Ho Ho Hee Hee Hee Ha Ha Ha
It’s one thing to know formal English, but this is not all that’s required for the subtleties of communication. Consider …
D is for Dry
Sometimes the cupboard is bare. Sometimes the tissue is gone. Sometimes the tank has no gas. Sometimes the milk is …
C is for Cromulent
So often our language can become so bland it feels like it’s been diluted with chicken milk. Or expelled from …
B is for Blocked
What do you do when you’re blocked? I freewrite. That’s what I am doing here. I just keep my fingers …
A is for A
Pity a. A gets no respect. A gets taken for granted. A gets trotted out and used—and often misused—by writers …
Imposter Syndrome
Social scientists working on a decades-long population study have recently concluded that every single living resident of the United States …