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Evan Swensen When to Knock: Timing and Trust in Author Emails
Writers often imagine their words as ripples—gentle, far-reaching, steady. But when it comes to email, many feel like they’re tossing …
Evan Swensen The Word with Six Legs
There’s something quietly delightful about discovering trivia few know about—not life-changing, not earth-shaking, but just fun. The kind of thing …
Evan Swensen When Words Leave Scars
Thank you. Based on your prompt and image content, here is your 700-word Medium story written in your voice and …
Carl Douglass Still A Kid
Mr. Conrad’s worst day every year was Halloween when the local mischief makers seemed to feel it a duty, a …
Evan Swensen Where Facts End and Story Begins
History does not whisper—it leaves fingerprints. For writers of historical fiction, the challenge is not just honoring those prints but …
Evan Swensen Why Books Speak Louder Than Words
The average adult reads at a pace of about 200 to 250 words per minute. But we only speak at …
Evan Swensen From Parlors to Parliament
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” When Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote those words in 1839, he wasn’t just dressing up …
Evan Swensen The Door-Opening Bio: Why Every Writer Needs One
Writers don’t always struggle with words. But when it comes time to write a short author bio, most of them …
Evan Swensen What Your Handwriting Knows That Your Keyboard Doesn’t
Here’s a fun fact hot off the press—literally within the last seven days. Researchers published a study in the Journal …
Evan Swensen The Weight Behind the Words
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” When F. Scott …
Carl Douglass HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
PART XIV Oceania: Australian English Australian English is relatively homogeneous and simplified when compared to British and American English. There is some regional …
Evan Swensen No One Believes a World They Can’t Smell
Writers ask how to create a believable and immersive world, especially those working in fantasy or science fiction. They bring …