By Dr. Chrissy Whiting-Madison @joyfulgurly Have you ever sent a text to someone who totally misunderstood what you were trying to say?  Perhaps you were being sarcastic, and the recipient read it as rude. Maybe you were being sincere, and the recipient read it as mocking. We have all been…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky I don’t watch a lot of television, but one show I enjoyed was Monk. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it was an old detective show based around an OCD ex-cop with an incredible power of perception. A dead body would show up, the San Francisco police…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin I’ve written magazine articles which appear in publications with over a million subscribers. Other articles reach 100,00 to 200,000 readers, which is way more than any of my books will reach. As a long-time journalist writing for different publications and a former magazine editor, I’m intimately…

By Holland Webb @WebbHollandLyle You're a writer, and writers should get paid, right? Yes, they should! If you work diligently enough, you will probably find people and publishers who will pay you for your work. Unfortunately, you may also run into a scammer along the way, someone who is more…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You’ve just come home from the conference. You have a stack of business cards. You scribbled notes in your notebook or phone. And now the real work begins. Revising your proposal. Writing the proposal that you didn’t have time to write before the conference. Reworking your…

by Mary Holloman @mtholloman I got a 3 on my elementary school writing test. Do you remember those? It was in fourth grade. Each student was given a prompt, and you had a set amount of time to write a story using the prompt. The highest score you could receive…