How can you jump off a 35-foot ladder onto solid concrete and not hurt yourself? Where can you find rivers with no fish, roads with no cars, seas with no ships, and towns with no people? These riddles are two of 150 brain training challenges in Parragon Books’ Professor Murphy’s Brain-Busting Puzzles & Riddles. (Psst: […]
“Used occasionally, alliteration can: Be memorable. Make an impact. Make you look confident. Be used for emphasis,”say the authors of “How to Get Your Own Way (Using Critical Thinking)”. Alliteration is just one of several creative writing techniques that can make your business correspondence more interesting, they add. With alliteration, you repeat the same letter […]
Have you ever wondered why handmade items are looked upon as superior, while machine made pieces are often deemed inferior? And is that still true? “Perhaps it used to matter if a dress was handmade or machine made, at least in haute couture, but now things are complete different,” said Karl Lagerfield at the Metropolitan […]
“What is passive voice and why are we often told to avoid it?” novelist and Writer’s Workshop Senior Editor Emma Darwin asks her students. Here’s Darwin’s simple explanation: When the action of the sentence is being performed by the subject of the sentence, it’s in active voice. When the action is being done to the […]
The “brutally honest truth,” says Demian Farnworth of raventools.com, is that, from the writer’s point of view, there are three basic types of ghostwriting: Their ideas and words You listen to business owners talk about their business or they send you content and you turn it into a book (or blog posts). Their ideas, your […]
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