A tweet from novelist Megan Collins, author of Behind the Red Door (Bookshop|Amazon) and The Winter Sister (Bookshop|Amazon), is one every writer will appreciate. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Too-True Comment On A...
Matt from Waukesha, Wisconsin, has been discussing the words barely and nearly with his 10-year-old son Simon. They know the two words are nearly alike, but how exactly? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Barely vs...
Bonnie Hearn Hill’s essay “What I Wish I’d Known” offers aspiring authors lots of great tips gleaned from Hill’s long career of writing books. The essay won a contest sponsored by The Writer magazine. This is part of a...
Fred Allen, an old-time radio performer from the medium’s golden age, had a dry gift for one-liners. He once said, “Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted.” Another Allen line: “I like long walks, especially when...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s Writer’s Math hides written-out numbers across word breaks in quotations and sentences. The solver hunts consecutive letters spanning two or more words, as in the prompt Launch yourself on every wave, drawn from Thoreau’s...
Samuel Butler once likened definitions to a kind of scratching. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Kind of Scratching” The English writer Samuel Butler once wrote, Definitions are a kind of scratching and generally...