Your Words: Fertilizer or Coffin Nails?

Your Words: Fertilizer or Coffin Nails?

Words: Fertilizer or Coffin Nails? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me. – Childhood rhyme      Did you ever sing that song about sticks-and-stones after someone insulted you? We both know that’s not true, don’t we? Words are...
A New Twist to the 5 Ws and How of Writing

A New Twist to the 5 Ws and How of Writing

Let’s put a new twist on the standard who, what, when, where, why and how questions that writers are supposed to answer and approach it from the context of our motivation for writing. Why are you writing? To whom are your writing? How do you tell the story? What...