That entire two page spread in Crossroads, AAA Hoosier Motor Club’s magazine, I realized, constituted one big Do-It-Yourself Call to Action. There were actually seven CTAs in a row: Know your coverage. Think about what’s changed since your last checkup. Review your home inventory. Check your liability coverage. Consider natural disasters. Evaluate your auto coverage. […]
White tea is made from young leaves, green tea from more mature leaves, with the white named after the silvery-white hairs on immature buds on the tea plant. Does the difference matter? According to the Beverage Guidance Panel, which includes the chair of the nutrition department at Harvard University School of Public Health, white […]
“Can authors write characters whose experiences are outside of their own?” That’s the very question posed by Diana M. Pho in her article “Through the Looking Glass” in Writer’s Digest. Writing across difference is important, she says, since “the best fiction has the ability to transport readers into another’s shoes and make readers […]
Poems often follow a particular set of rules. The rules might be about: the number of lines the number of stanzas the number of lines the length of each stanza For example, sonnets have 14 lines, and use line-ending rhymes. Limericks have five lines, with the third and fourth lines rhyming (an AABBA […]
“Construct your paragraphs with a good eye as well as a good mind,” advises Richard Anderson in Powerful Writing Skills. What does that mean? Consider how the paragraph looks on the page – would it be more appealing to the eye to divide it into two paragraphs? Anderson’s reasoning includes the following considerations: Enormous blocks […]
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