Back in my late 20s and early 30s, somewhere on the way to learning how to write like a grownup, I learned the rules for constructing a paragraph. Here on the verge of 63 and retirement, I find that ...

In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.

Paragraphs are a collection of sentences. They are used in writing to introduce new sections of a story, characters or pieces of information. Paragraphs help readers to enjoy what has been written ...

Paragraphs remain one of the most important parts of writing. They serve as containers for ideas and help break up large chunks of text, making your content easier to read. But knowing how to write a ...

The latter half of Rion Amilcar Scott's outstanding new collection, The World Doesn't Require You, is the brilliant novella "Special Topics in Loneliness Studies," about a college professor at the ...

A few years ago I was introducing my children to table-top role-playing games. I started searching the interwebs for some ideas and systems other people used with kids. I wrote about several in a past ...

A paragraph is a group of sentences that all link to one topic or theme. For example in the opening to The Hunger Games, the entire paragraph focuses on the narrator waking up and realising that her ...

Christina Dalcher dedicated her debut novel, Vox, to Charlie Jones, "linguist, professor, friend". Dalcher earned a doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2006, with a dissertation ...

I’ve been reading thick books recently, most about the war in the Middle East. These books have hundreds of characters in them, some major players, and some who make cameo appearances. How to ...