Silences And Sounds

The “write it perfectly” trap reached out and caught me yesterday. It’s hard to write when every sentence feels like it needs to be perfec...

Once upon a time as recently as yesterday, I lived in a world in which Google Translate was an imperfect but useful tool. I could ask it ...

Many writers talk about the "ugly draft." I'm here with images to confirm that drafts can, indeed, be ugly! Three months ago,...

Today was a good reminder to me of my own childhood training as a writer. I was taught the sunflower approach to paper organization: a seri...

In many ways, I am a data-dragon. I like to collect a lot of “just plain information” about a thing, hoarding up data-points like that mo...