Getting an Emotional Commitment
Rather than go on about all the rules of grammar and spelling and punctuation and syntax and all the rest -there are plenty of other...
Clarity and Simplification
If you were receiving personal tutoring from me, I’d be asking questions like "Tell me what you are trying to say in this bit. Can you...
The Power of the Unresolved Problem
Let’s assume you’ve grabbed sufficient attention by pulling the reader in, you’ve laid out what your theme or argument will be, and...
Holding Your Reader's Attention With Mystery
Let’s imagine that you have successfully written an opening sentence which at the very least doesn’t push the reader away. Perhaps you’ve...
How To Avoid Losing Your Reader In The First Fifteen Seconds
You probably have about fifteen seconds to grab your reader’s attention, whether you’re writing an essay or a story. Poems have even less...