The reason I keep writing is because that’s what I’ve done since I was around fifteen. At first, it was poems and short stories, then song lyrics, and later, with the internet, blog posts and books. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t write, but I’ve never made it a daily ritual. However, most…

When you write like you speak, it’s much easier to develop your unique writing voice. But don’t take this too literally because when speaking, we repeat ourselves, use filler words and sounds, hesitate, utter unfinished sentences, and change direction without thinking. Good writing is rarely exactly like our natural speech patterns. But when you construct…

Many writing apps need an internet connection to work. But offline writing apps give you much more freedom and choice about where, when, and how you write. While it’s almost natural now to be online, having the option to write offline means you can take your work to a cafe, a park, or a river…

Every writer uses empty sentence starters, often without even noticing. The reason they are so common is that they are easy to use. Very often, these few empty words set up a sentence before getting to the main point. One of the most common is “there is” or “there are” because it tells us that…