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Poetry for Prose Writers

Poetry for Prose Writers

In between some fiction writing and my usual blogging/guest-article writing, I’ve written some poems recently, which got me thinking: Prose writers, listen to me, your writing will improve (I promise) if you read poetry. And if you write it, it’s guaranteed. And now I’m thinking I really need to offer a class called Poetry for…

A Brief Defense of Using a Thesaurus (in which I disagree with Stephen King)
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A Brief Defense of Using a Thesaurus (in which I disagree with Stephen King)

You may not even know that the humble thesaurus comes under attack, but it does. The topic arose this week when a writer tweeted a question asking other writers how they feel about using a thesaurus. Almost everyone who responded said they were down with them and why. But someone reminded me who it was…