It’s bad enough when you go back over a piece of writing and cringe at an awful mistake you’ve found. But it’s much worse when you go on making the same grammatical errors or spelling mistakes and don’t even know…

It’s amazing how much influence Latin has over the language we speak and write in every day. It’s at the root of many, many languages, and some terms have also survived intact from this centuries-old language and made it into…

I can usually tell by reading the first paragraph of a book whether or not I’m going to finish it. I call it my “test.” It gives me a good idea of whether or not I should buy something at…

With election season upon us, we’re all hearing plenty of arguments from people trying to convince us of one thing or another, throwing out all sorts of statements (from facts to half-truths to, well, flat-out lies) in an effort to…

When you sit down to create any new piece of prose, one of the things you’ll need to consider before you start typing or scribbling is what point of view you’ll use. What perspective should you tell this story from,…