How’s that New Year’s writing resolution going?
As that New-Year vigor starts to lose momentum, how’s that writing resolution of yours going?
Category: Writing
Why You Should RUE: Resist the Urge to Explain
“…by never explaining her situations, by trusting her readers to keep up her, [the author] pays her readers the compliment of assuming them to be intelligent. And that’s a compliment any writer would do well to pass along.”
Character Voice & Individuality: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
…the individuality of character voices creates, in the mind, a world with two unique individuals with subconscious (or otherwise) agendas, hopes, desires, and tells.
Show, Don’t Tell: Anger, Nervousness, Fear (Example)
Anger, nervousness, and fear: These are the names we’ve given to poignant and complex emotions that can overpower even ZenoContinue Reading
Narrator: Pigeon English (A Case Study)
The narrator in Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English is one of those characters whose voice has so much texture that, asweh,Continue Reading
On I, Part 2: Alternatives to the First Person in Academic Writing
Avoidance of the first person in academic writing can serve to keep your readers’ focus on what matters: the findings.Continue Reading
Me, Myself, &… The Researcher? The First Person in Academic Writing
In our secondary school years, our teachers cautioned us against the use of the first person in expository writing. ThroughContinue Reading
For the Love of the Story 