Like a lot of great poets, William Butler Yeats paid attention to verbs. Pitcured: A 1900 portrait of Yeats by his father, John Butler Yeats. Public domain In the last issue I promised exercises to ...
Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence: And ...
Novelist Edan Lepucki looks to the subversive metaphors in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale for lessons in channeling characters' weird, rebellious spirits. Edan Lepucki, a graduate of the Iowa ...
Linking words together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. When you are writing, words are grouped together into sentences. There are a few simple rules you ...