It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” ~ Winnie the Pooh One of my favorite books when I was in high school wasn’t a novel or a biography or even a narrative of any kind: It was a well-thumbed …
Somehow I completely missed the one-year anniversary of this blog on June 12th! It’s been fun to go back and see how much my thoughts have changed or stayed the same and, most exciting, how the very act of blogging has improved my writing skills. To celebrate, I’m sharing below what I wrote one year …
The Tantalizing Power of Opening Paragraphs When you are in a library or bookstore, how do you choose which books to take home? In addition to checking out the back cover for blurbs from either published authors I admire or prominent book reviews, I usually read the first page or first paragraph, and I know. …
I’m typing this post in a Word document (opened to fill half the screen), while in the background my Firefox browser has not one, not two, but fifteen tabs calling to be opened, tugging at my attention like a two year old hanging on my leg: Gmail Goodreads A Sear Portrait coupon I’d clicked on …
It’s not too early to start thinking about your summer, your writing summer, that is. What do you want to write before the leaves turn color in the fall? What do you want to start? To finish? This weekend I got some inspiration from a recent article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Angela Wu’s piece …