Good feedback
Good feedback is kind, thorough and timely. It’s professional and focused. It leaves the writer feeling challenged to do better but great about their strengths. Even if that just means the location...
View ArticleWriter’s block
I don’t believe in writer’s block. I don’t know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I’m going to get through. It’s just a matter of finding a way. — Elmore Leonard
View ArticleA letter is eternal
The voice once heard perishes, but the letter once written remains. — Ancient Roman proverb
View ArticleGood company
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. — Lord Byron
View ArticleThe good-letter test
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of... (Continue reading)
View ArticleLetters mingle souls
More than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. — John Donne
View ArticleOur civic duty
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his [or her] country. — George... (Continue reading)
View ArticleChallenge you with language
If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you...
View ArticleFinding the right words
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.... (Continue reading)
View ArticleOutside a dog . . .
Outside a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read. — Groucho Marx
View ArticleWhat a lot we lost
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter
View ArticleRemember?
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. — Beryl...
View ArticleWriting and living
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is... (Continue reading)
View ArticleBrilliance
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. — Lee... (Continue reading)
View ArticleLanguage of leadership
The art of communication is the language of leadership. — James Humes
View ArticleDrafting your way to polish
“[M]y understanding of initial drafts shifted from drafts as the precursor to a polished product to drafts as the route to that polish.” — Math professor, Rachelle Ankney
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