I am writing more often on Substack these days. You can go there to read those things (there’s a gradually-growing collection of stuff at our Substack, Write Well & Publish Wisely), or you could download the Substack app to your phone and read our stuff there as a Substack native. Or you could just subscribe […]
It takes a lot to make me angry. This did…
I write a lot of answers on Quora (I was a Top Writer in 2018, and have kept contributing since then, but Quora grew bigger and bigger and I became a smaller and smaller fish in comparison). I like answering questions that others find exasperating, trying to do justice to the curiosity behind the “dumb” […]
Building Solid Paragraphs
I see it all the time. A perfectly good scene, shoehorned into just three or four monolithic paragraphs. Or a whole dialogue poured into a single huge paragraph, flat and solid as a concrete sidewalk. Sometimes a writer will err in the opposite direction, smashing a coherent paragraph into smaller shards just to add more […]