I have so enjoyed Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style. If you are writing books or sermons, blogs or lesson plans, you will greatly benefit from his thoughts on good communication. One particularly poignant section captures the secret to good style in a simple metaphor. Pinker writes: The guiding metaphor of classic style is seeing […]
Writing
Encouragement for Writers
I enjoy writing. I like words, and I like sentences. I even appreciate grammar. But none of that means I will produce good writing. Good writing is just plain difficult to do. The other day I was re-reading my favorite pure prose writer, Annie Dillard, and she reminded me of the monumental task that is […]
A Great Reminder from a Great Writer
As I have worked diligently for approval from various circles of people, I have often caught myself with this quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne: “It is a good lesson – though it may often be a hard one – for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among […]