Writing

Writer vs Author: What’s the Difference?

In everyday conversation the terms “writer” and “author” are used interchangeably and most people believe they mean exactly the same thing. The two terms are closely related and do overlap in many contexts , but there are meaningful distinctions between the two that are more than just semantics. Grasping...

How to Start Writing Without Overthinking It

Why Writing Feels Hard at First Every writer, Still great, has to go through that scary moment at the start: a blank page and no clue where to begin. Actually, it's not the lack of talent that makes it hard to get started. Basically, the way writing feels until you...

What Is Creative Writing? A Complete Beginner’s Guide

Introduction There are some types of writing that cannot be limited to rules, conventions or bare communication of information. It is the writing that is alive, writing that goes beyond factual and functional and hits something profound in the human experience. Such writing is creative writing and it is one...

What Makes a Writer Memorable?

The difference between a writer you forget and one you carry with you forever. There are writers whose names you remember, but whose words have long since evaporated. And then there are the writers who alter your perspective of the world. Who remain in the back of your mind, influencing...

10 Habits of Great Writers

Introduction Great writing doesn’t happen by accident. Behind every great novel, every well-crafted essay, every sentence that stops a reader dead in his or her tracks and makes him or her read it twice, is a writer who has built up a series of deliberate habits that make excellence not...