The Writer's Pulse

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Image: felipe gabaldon"][/caption] Pillar posts have become quite the cliche out there in the blogosphere, and they're very easy to pick out: they'll be relatively long, informative, and more...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Image: calm a llama down"][/caption] Tone is the attitude you express toward your subject matter. It's not only about what you say, but how you say it. It often occurs naturally, without much...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption=""What's in there?" "Only what you take with you.""][/caption] Star Wars probably isn't the first source you'd turn to for writing advice, but a long time ago in a galaxy...

Tips are opinions. No matter how many blogs or magazines you read, the advice you get is never guaranteed to work for you, because we're all different. None of that stops people like me from posting opinions and tips, occasionally laced with fact, but...

Here's something I think you should do if you haven't already: create an idea folder. Newspaper and magazine clippings, passages from books, pictures, observations. Snippets of your own writing, or incomplete ideas. An idea folder is filled with things...