Writing Articles (Sorted by popularity)

Are You Achieving Your Writing Goals?

At the start of this new year, like at the start of every other new year, I came across dozens of articles about the importance of setting achievable goals, challenging myself to do new things and fixing measurable standards and working towards...
Mridu KhullarFebruary 13, 2005

So, You Think You Want to Be a Freelance Proofreader

How many times have you thought to yourself that you would be a good proofreader? You have a decent working vocabulary, you are able to construct a well-turned phrase, and you know when to hyphenate a compound noun (or maybe you don’t, but you...
Jan KovarikMarch 05, 2005

Alternative View Points and the Lamp of Creativity

Pictures they say are worth a thousand words, but many writers know that they are worth much more than that! Without decent photographs or other artwork to accompany an article many features published in todays magazines and newspapers would never...
Sue KendrickJune 03, 2004

Evaluation Essay

An evaluation essay estimates an object, prompting the reader to accept the writer?s point of view. Features of the evaluative essays are very similar to those of cause and effect essays, but no cause-effect relations are considered in evaluation...
Jessica Johnson, jrOctober 03, 2005

Slow Pokes: Short Story On The Changing World Of Writing

“No one will ever know who I am, I’m a nobody-writer from nowhere… I’ve had a thousand rejections from all the major publishers. It seems my destiny is never to be read, another nameless soul lost to the sands of eternity.”...
Jesse S. SomerNovember 18, 2004

The Write Habit: How to Strengthen Your Writing Muscle

Writing is a muscle that needs exercise to stay in shape. I realized how true that saying is when I took what I called "a well-earned break" after I finished my first novel.
Katey Coffing, Ph.D.July 31, 2004

Writing as a Gift

What am I supposed to give Anthony as a wedding gift? I asked Kristin, my bridesmaid and person-who-was-married. I mean, what kinds of things do brides give their grooms?
Jenna GlatzerJuly 31, 2004

The Spectre Hound

And a dreadful thing from the cliff did spring,and its wild bark thrill'd around,His eyes had the glow of the fires below,'twas the form of the spectre houndOne of the most chilling omens of death in English folklore is the large, spectral...
Susanna DuffyMay 30, 2004

The Ironies Of MASH

The TV show MASH ran for 11 years taking nearly every opportunity to bash the US involvement with the Korean War, which was actually an allegory for Vietnam.
Stephen SchochetOctober 23, 2003

Using the Life Cycle in Your Writing

Life is said to evolve in three stages. Creation, survival and destruction. Similar to the life cycle of birth, life, death, and resurrection, these cycles should be reflected in your writing.In the first part of a story, a character may be creating...
Maxine ThompsonNovember 14, 2006