A great professor once told me that you're either a heavy planner or a heavy reviser. Some people can plot out every step of a project and follow through in turn, while others need to get their hands dirty in order to make anything worthwhile. Personally, I think George Burns had it right: The best … Continue reading How to Outline Anything
The problem I hear hobbyist writers--the ones with notebooks of poetry and short stories that they have no interest in publishing--complain about the most is their lack of knowledge regarding English grammatical structure. Now, as an English major who has studied the history and development of the language, I can tell you with 100% certainty that … Continue reading How to Write a Complete Sentence
As summer ends and we all gear up to face another season, another semester, another year, think of autumn as an opportunity for a new start, and take these very fitting words and do something with them.