Ancient Travels
I came across an interesting question on Quora the other day: What was the approximate travel time between London and …
Category Archives: Writing
Free Online Character Name Generators
I have an unusual relationship with character names, probably because I have such a poor memory (as Electra likes to …
How Fiction Can Inspire Business Writing
Business writing includes memos, reports, proposals, emails, and a variety of other business-related written materials. It usually gets pretty bad …
How to Kill a Word
I came across this great slideshow by Patrick McLean on Slideshare (many thanks to Laura for the tip!) As a …
Infographic: Free Online Tools to Organize Your Writing
Online Schools Report has created a guide to help college students organize their studies. It includes a bunch of organizational …
The Highs and Lows of Writing Books
This is a guest post by Arslan Hassan. Arslan is an electrical engineer with a passion for writing, designing, and …
News-Writing Tips
This is a guest post by Alison Guest. Alison works with Writing Help to offer professional essay editor services and …
Flame-Bladed Swords
Fantasy often sports unusual weapons like the flame-bladed sword: But how historically accurate are they? Were these actually ever used …
3 Hard Science Fiction Ideas
Many of my readers enjoy science fiction as much as I do. Jacob Baumgardner recently shared an answer about which …
Some of My Favorite Writing Blogs
I haven’t written one of these posts in ages, so I wanted to give you a few links to blogs …
