When Carly Rose Sonenclar took the stage at X Factor USA and began to sing “Feeling Good,” the judges’ skepticism soon turned to admiration. Powerful sounds can come from small…
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Bestselling authors may write great paragraphs, but we can learn ways to make them even better. A great paragraph from The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz: The club wasn’t…
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Crucial or Critical — While the two might be used interchangeably, critical works best for extreme danger and crucial for something very important. It may be crucial to pay bills…
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If any person is every under watchful eyes around the world, it’s the president of the United States. Few modern presidents have done a better job of speaking the truth…
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We should not overlook the important means that Jesus often used to communicate truth: storytelling. If you tell a man he should be forgiving, you might hear him say, “Yeah,…
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Some of us have fallen flat on our face before. What do we do? As writers, after receiving a rejection letter, a bad review, or no encouragement at all, we…
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We can laugh when we’re happy and laugh when we’re sad. We can laugh flippantly, seriously, or or simply because others in the room are laughing. Our laughs may be…
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Dave Barry writes some funny stuff, but can we take a great paragraph from his book Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up and make it even better? A great…
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You may have heard there’s more than one way to skin a cat. There’s more than one way to make music as well, and the strangest materials may be used…
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Whenever you run across “made his way,” “found himself,” “proceeded to,” “shot a look,” “caught a glimpse,” or “managed to,” you can probably find a better verb or verb phrase.…
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
