A Collection of Personal Writing, Photography, and Things I Like
How to Use Commas
As a writer and editor, I've seen many confused acts of punctuation. Without question, the comma holds the title for the most commonly misused mark.
About My Becoming a Writer
I can trace my path to working with words back to a box of crayons. The 64-count Crayola box with a sharpener in the back.
On Writing on a Team
It starts with a conversation. Analysis. The client is the patient, the copywriter the psychiatrist, listening, nodding, watching, taking secret notes and judging judging judging.
Four Elements of Storytelling
Some storytelling skills may come naturally, or they may develop from upbringing—years of summer camp stories, family barbecues, or long car rides. I also think they can be acquired through conscious awareness, practice, and exposure.
goal of an artist.
“The goal of an artist is to be free of violent joys and spirits for which he had time enough during his past life….”
How to Use Semicolons
First, let me admit that in my seedy, collegiate youth, I was once an overuser of semicolons. I, like many writers at that level, saw the semicolon as a softer end stop, a two-thirds period. I thought that longer sentences were academic and proof of my writing prowess.
How Spiders are Like Good Creatives
I've said (out loud and unironically), that I'm "tidal." I ride an emotional wave that peaks in optimism and production, and valleys in pessimism and general crankiness.
like music.
…Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.
They are composed like music….
