I started WORDS ON THE LINE nearly 17years ago, on January 4, 2005, when my plan for it was to write casually about my passion for writing and to help people write better.
A thousand posts later, my passion and objective have not changed. The content in this blog will keep you learning tips for writing at work, school, and home. I will follow this post with part 10 of a 25-part series on The Resourceful Reporter. Other topical series in this blog, in chronological order, include:
- The Employment Application Process (2005, 5 parts)
- Summarizing Successfully (2006, 8 parts)
- Logical Fallacies (2006, 20 parts)
- Constructive Criticism (2007, 6 parts)
- Tips for Better Email (2007, 20 parts)
- Grammatical Guidelines (2007-2008, 7 parts)
- Breaking Writer's Block (2009, 12 parts)
- The Virtues of Reading Your Writing Aloud (2010, 5 parts)
- An ESL Guide (2010, 7 parts)
- Voice (2010, 11 parts)
- Getting Creative (2010, 7 parts)
- Staying Creative (2011, 7 parts)
- 120 Influences (2011, 14 parts)
- Why and How I Teach Writing (2011, 12 parts)
- Finding Inspiration (2012, 5 parts)
- Punctuation Pointers (2012, 4 parts)
- Five Things I Learned from Teaching in China (2012, 5 parts)
- Style Standards (2013, 4 parts)
- The Reading-Writing Continuum (2014, 11 parts)
- Why We Get Words Wrong (2015, 10 parts)
- Writing in Plain Language (2016, 9 parts)
- Things Writers Do (2016-2017, 21 parts)
- What Writers Say (2017, 25 parts)
- Starting with What Matters (2017-2018, 20 parts)
- Tone Tips (2018, 14 parts)
- Splendid Sentences (2018-2019, 15 parts)
- Do You Know How to Argue? (2019, 3 parts)
- On Taking Notes (2019, 8 parts)
- On Writing for the Web (2020, 4 parts)
- Improving Style Through Syntax (2020, 20 parts)
- Improving Style Through Diction (2020, 20 parts)
- Using the Writing Process Effectively (2020, 4 parts)
- Surprising Sentences (2021, 18 parts)
- The Art of Writing (2021, 6 parts)
