The Pulitzer Prize
Next year marks the centennial celebration of the Pulitzer Prize. First awarded in four categories in 1917, the prize has grown over the...
Inspiration
Your Latin lesson for the day: "Inspiration" comes from the Latin word "inspirare," meaning "to blow into, breathe upon." It's the same...
The Littlest Rhymes Poetry #1
We think poetry is difficult to read and difficult to understand. But we’ve been exposed to poetry from our very first year of life....
A Story Worth Writing
In an article titled “All Stories Are the Same” in The Atlantic Monthly, John Yorke claims that if you want to write a good story, you...
Stuck
Last year I did the New Things 2015 Challenge, and I was very successful! Unfortunately,this year has not started as auspiciously! I...
Handwriting, the Lost Art
I'm reading a book about the invention of bookshelves. It's an obscure topic, I know. Writers are like that. We get excited about strange...
Inspiration
One definition of the word inspiration is “any stimulus to creative thought or action.” The root word inspire comes from the Latin...
Precious
To ancient civilizations, the exchange of ideas wa What now? Words today are disseminated more rapidly and affordably than any printing...
