OK, I admit it: despite my profession, I’m no paragon of perfect communication, particularly when emotions get in the way. So let me tell you about my lovely husband and me, being thoroughly human and flawed and a little bit pathetic. Through our seven years together, we’ve had the same communication issue crop up, causing… Continue reading How to break a communication impasse
Category: Thoughts on words
If you can language it, you can have it
So Barbie has got in on the entrepreneur act and is telling us that if you can dream it, you can be it (except for, one presumes, the owner of a healthy, normally proportioned body). I’ll pay that, mildly, with a not-too-enthusiastic clap and a bit of a nod. No more, because the idea of dreaming as… Continue reading If you can language it, you can have it
How to write for your audience every single week
I’d asked the students in my Creative Writing class to pick an object in the room that symbolised how they were feeling that night. Each student read, and we all heard about the requisite blank-pieces-of-paper-waiting-to-be-filled, and doors-open-in-anticipation. Then we got to Rhonda*. She sighed, picked up her piece of paper, and read: “Tonight I feel… Continue reading How to write for your audience every single week