...Good Reads
- Harvard Faculty Explain Analytical Writing With interactive learning exercises meant to help students see how scholars work with the elements of academic argument.
- Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers: Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegaut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.
- Famous novels’ opening lines
- A Guide of Neopronouns: Are you a person, place or a thing? We have good news.
- Gertrude Stein on Writing and Belonging: “Everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves to tell what is inside themselves.”
- Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules for a Great Story: Mastering the essential complementarity of compassion and total objectivity.
- Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling: “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Billy Collins’s Advice to Writers: “Spotlessness is the niece of inspiration.”
- On Poetry: How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon
- Toppling the Grammar Patriarchy in 21st Century France
- After Deadline: New York Times Blog- FAQs on Style: Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style.
- Patti Smith on Listening to the Creative Impulse and the Crucial Difference Between Writing Poetry and Songwriting: “In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse, which are things that are more important than material things. They are the things that we should magnify.”
- Margaret Atwood: Fiction Writing Workshop