Bad writing makes us want to fight
Do you ever feel tense or angry after reading something? Do you ever feel a level of stress that you didn’t have when you started? Does it feel like a chore to finish? And how do you feel when you’re done? Happy? Sad? Or ready to fight someone? Sometimes...
Are you listening?
Sometimes, the best thing you can do is listen. Whether you’re in a meeting with colleagues all raising their hands to talk at the same time, on a first date, or sitting in a cafe with a laptop and a lukewarm coffee, hoping for inspiration to strike, often the...
Creative writing teacher calls creative writing programs a waste of time
Author Hanif Kureishi went on record last month in U.K. paper the Independent, calling creative writing courses a “waste of time.” And he should know — he’s a creative writing teacher. Yes, that’s right. The author of The Buddha of...
The value of vacations and long lunches
The title of a post I read recently in Forbes was a little misleading: Want to Succeed? Don’t Check Your Email – and Work Out at Lunch. But never mind that, because what writer Erika Andersen actually had to say was interesting and worthwhile. Don’t...About
What is your voice?