Allusion and illusion differ by only one vowel, but a single vowel is all it takes. The two words could not be more different from one another.
How Long Should Your Novel Be?
Every so often, I’m asked about how long a particular type of content should be. It isn’t an absurd question; it’s one I’ve googled when I need to know how many characters I’m allowed in a subject line and how many words in a headline. Such is the way of things when writing marketing copy or an article for an online publication or print newspaper.
Too Much of a Good Thing
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. In the case of introverts, alone time is a good thing. They need it to recharge. Too much alone time, though, is a very, very bad thing.
Write Right Has a Midsummer Night’s Dream
How to be a Better Writer: Be Empathetic
It’s the noticing that cracks us open, lets something in.
Shows we’re in use.
Uses us.
Right now. Right this minute.
Lia Purpura’s “Recurrences/Concurrences”
Loneliness is not Solitude
Therefore, my dear friend, I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth…For the creative artist must be a world of his own and must find everything within himself and in nature, to which he has betrothed himself.
– “The First Letter,” Rainer Maria Rilke