This sounds like a contradiction. While so many past Purposeful Prose posts, so many bloggers, and so many forum posts will, in words set...

It's no one's place to say what constitutes as "bad" writing for anyone other than themselves. There are pieces of writing that can...

Knowledge is a blessing and a curse. A well-thought-out story can inspire, explain, inform, validate, shock, resonate, but the author of...

I would only order coffee under one of two circumstances. If C-- had arrived early and I'd seen her at a table, my first destination...

In order to be made accessible, writing needs a clear thread to follow. Ideally, there should be intention behind action and an end goal....

Recently, I've had to focus the majority of my criticisms on writers' openings. It's not a secret that the way in which a writer performs...

As an editor, when I see "in fact," I usually get rid of it. I'm not opposed to passive voice and I'm very lenient with a lot of...

It's common for writers to develop rituals in preparing for, executing, and finishing a piece of writing. For some writers, those rituals...

In my personality test on writing apprehension, I looked at different scales with which writing apprehension has been measured, noting...

For the purpose of today's post, I read a piece entitled "Writing Apprehension" by John A. Daly that traced different tests administered...