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I avoid using a font with serifs when writing, if at all possible. The last thing I need to do is give my words feet. I already have a difficult enough time getting them out of my head and onto the page in the right order; they certainly don’t need any kind of transportation devices …

I certainly thought I would have no difficulty coming up with space and astronomy-themed words for a project I was working on. Surely, amidst all the eons spent watching and reading SciFi material based in space, I ought to have a formidable vocabulary. Nope. My mind periodically imprisons itself with useless cyclical information. For nearly …

My friend sent me an email, sarcastically using the APA format for the body of it. This was no doubt due to a certain level of frustration with some online classes that have required intense accuracy of the format and sources used. His responses to me were clever and quasi realistic, citing FltPlan.com as he …

Last week, someone in an organization I’m involved forgot the most important rule to keep in mind before clicking send in an email: know who you’re sending the email to. Instead of a small pool of readers, it went to hundreds all across the organization. This would have been fine if the email had contained …

While at Barnes and Noble, looking through the section of books dedicated to writers, I came to remember a truth of the publishing world that I’d forgotten: the best way to make money as a writer is to write a book telling other writers how to be successful as a writer. Back when I was …