Good workshopping can vastly improve the writing of both the workshopper and workshoppee. (“Workshopping” just means critiquing or giving feedback on someone’s writing, BTW.) Here are some tips for giving…
A hooded figure dragged itself through the trees as dusk fell. An empty house sat beyond them, unlit, with a single pumpkin on the cobwebbed porch. The inhabitants knew nothing…
**Reposted with permission from potatosquad.org** Lawns are super common, but they’re a wytai — while Earth is running out of resources, we take up so much space growing a type of plant…
Aza had been on the run for hours, and she didn’t know if she could keep going. Her eyelids were drooping with exhaustion, and her sisters’ screams as they were…
Emotional scenes often come easiest and can be the heart of a story. I adore them. But it can also be hard to do a scene justice (messy first drafts…
Rules of grammar often have good intentions, but writing is about conveying meaning, and that is a subtle art. It follows that our writing style will be best when we…
OK, so my naming skills are not the best. *cough* Lars Capitulation *cough* Squiragon Lasers *cough* Anyway, I have since come up with better methods of naming characters than blurting…
Ants may be annoying/scary, but that doesn’t mean they can’t also be our friends. The world would end — end! — without them, and besides, we may be alike in…
I’ve currently paused writing this punctuation guide, but here’s what I have so far! Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of punctuation! This guide aims to cover formal, informal,…
Interrobangs are very rare — used neither in formal nor informal English, but only by nerds such as I (because we’re cool!). A question mark and exclamation point (or several)…