I'm pleased to announce that my book, Write Like You Mean It: Mastering Your Passion For The Written Word, will be available at this...

When you're tired and want to go to bed, do you wonder whether it's grammatically correct to say that you're laying in bed or lying in...

Even the best writers admit certain words are really hard to spell. No matter how often we use them in everyday writing, we routinely...

There are so many writing tools at our fingertips right now that it's easy to forget what inspired us to get ideas out of our heads in...

I wrote a blog just over a year ago to shine an important light on a few common phrases everyone keeps getting wrong in writing and...

Editor's Note: This is a guest post from one of our Edit This® writers and a close, personal friend, Lori Fickling. Lori has been one of...

My friends Joe and Diane Mayes at Patchouli Joe's Books & Indulgences hosted the first (and long-awaited) Denton Writers' Roundtable on...

It never gets old shouting to the mountaintops that Edit This®, your friendly neighborhood writing and editing service, is another year...

Metaphors and similes are constantly being used in writing, on television, in poetry, in the media, and in everyday conversations to...

My wife and I celebrated our 17th-wedding anniversary on Saturday. And as most people do in this wonderful age of social media, I took to...

Everybody craves being with family, especially as we attempt to make up for lost time from the pandemic. I'm certainly no exception. My...

I found an article about writing and procrastination that suggested writers are the worst procrastinators. The author even admitted – or...

The positive reviews for my book, Write Like You Mean It: Mastering Your Passion For The Written Word, has been nothing short of amazing....

I've said before that my ultimate goal is to have my book, Write Like You Mean It: Mastering Your Passion For The Written Word, become a...

In January, a veteran journalist crafted a Twitter post telling other writers to stop recording most of their interviews. In her opinion,...

I've always had a healthy respect for authors, but that admiration grew tenfold as I dove into writing my book, Write Like You Mean It:...

There I was, sitting at a table by myself and wondering if anyone would show up. Only 10 minutes had passed since the start of my book...

While watching a few author interviews several years ago, I couldn't help but marvel at how smooth the conversations were. It didn't...

It's not every day that I have the opportunity to be the spotlight author at a book signing. But here I am, thanks in no small part to my...

A friend told me the other day that he keeps getting in trouble at work for writing his reports in the passive voice. Granted, no one...