Here’s a great paragraph from The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Can we do even better? Yes, we often can improve a sentence by not starting with “it.”…
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You may have heard that the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Either way, wouldn’t you want to play with it before you paid…
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In the South, fixin’ has nothing to do with making repairs. It means we haven’t made the move yet, but we intend to. For example: I’m fixin’ to start exercising…
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“Cursive” used to refer to the flowing strokes of hand writing letters, joined together. Now, we’re so much into printing letters or typing that we might wonder what the word…
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Nothing is more important than the opening paragraph of a novel. You want to start strong and build from there. For practice, find a great opening from a bestselling novelist,…
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When kids learn English, they aren’t always clear on the meaning of words. Does a sign lettered Off-ice refer to a room near the ice house? As adults, we can…
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The best writing gives the words in the precise sequence to the way everything would be observed. We should try to avoid ending a sentence with something that happened earlier.…
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Maybe you’ve heard that two hands are better than one, but why not more? On the piano, Jason and Sara show how four hands can be better than two.
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If you’re inclined to string together long sentences, keep in mind that today’s audience likes “short and sweet” as long as the information flows smoothly from one action to the…
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Wouldn’t it be great if we had a means to get our audience to pay attention, to listen to our stories? Tripp and Tyler have created a device that will…
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
