Tag: Writer’s

How to Create Your Own Writer’s Style Guide

I learned about style guides in the late 1990s when I was a baby newspaper reporter in the actual Armpit of America. Armpit of America Discover Armpit of America in Battle Mountain, Nevada: Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of… www.atlasobscura.com A s...

The Writer’s Curse

Max Wordly sat by the fireplace writing feverishly. Thoughts flooded him, on this cold night, pouring into his mind as if it were a broken dam. He crumpled up another coffee cup and threw it next to the others without taking his pen from the paper. If an outsider were to peek inside, it would loo...

A Writer’s Disappointment

Taking on the identity of a writer, you may have to honor yourself with flowers because Vincent Van Goh’s brother, Theo, tried to sell his brother’s paintings but failed. People only started recognizing Van Goh for his artwork after his death, and then his paintings began to sell. ...

Writer’s Block, Or The Street Where I Picket

Showing the ‘Write Stuff’ on those picket signs, here’s just an inkling of some of the terrific, funny picket signs: “Without writers, Meredith Grey would not be a surgeon” “Without Writers, Jenny Ortega would have nothing to punch up” “Pay yo...

Edinburgh — The Writer’s Museum

Edinburgh is perhaps the only city in the world with a huge monument and a museum dedicated to its writers. Home to many famous writers — Robert Burns (1759–1996), Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), and Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, to name a few &...