Keeping a Journal: Tips for Writing Entries
Keeping a journal is a way to explore thoughts, work out problems, reduce stress, and improve your writing craft. But writing entries can seem pointless when the entries turn whiny or are written for no…
Writing for a Holiday
Literature played a strong role in our holiday seasons this year. Many (if not most) playhouses performed their version of A Christmas Carol. Children listened to recitations of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas and storytime…
Writing New Year’s Resolutions for Success
Were last year’s New Year’s resolutions no success and all struggle? Perhaps it’s not lack of motivation but how you keep writing your New Year’s resolutions that caused your goals to flop. Make this January…
Why Writers Read (and Watch)
Before exploring the Drawn Together: International Cartoons exhibit at the Flint Institute of Arts as I mentioned in a previous blog post, my parents and I came to the FIA for the Sunday showing of…
2012 Recap Survey
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Examining Editorial Cartoons
For my birthday earlier this month, I spent the day with my parents at the Flint Institute of Arts. We went particularly for the Drawn Together: International Cartoons exhibit that displayed 130 editorial cartoons from…
The Importance of Writing in Business
In this economy when many company positions are on the chopping block, jobs for writing and editing seem to be the first to go. A business has no obligation to maintain writing and editing…