Writing by Deanna Mascle

This is a simple letter or memo you prepare prior to a writing workshop or conference. Its purpose is to help your conference partner, group, or class provide the answers you really want and/or need about your specific writing project.

As an experienced conversationalist who has been wielding verbal words since toddlerhood, you easily move from one group of people to another adjusting your tone, your vocabulary, and your syntax accordingly. Often without thinking about it, you spea...

Developing an individual writing process is key to your success as a writer. Studies of struggling writers show that one of the reasons they struggle is that they focus on only one aspect of writing.

Learn more about creative writing One of the most powerful tools in my creative arsenal is what I call unconscious creativity. No, I do not ask someone to brain me with a hammer and I don't even need to be actually unconscious. This is when I simpl...

Metawriting, a.k.a. metadiscourse, is writing about writing. Of course the real challenge of metawriting is the fact that in order to write about writing you must also think about writing. The purpose of metawriting is to help the writer more fully...

Good writing doesn't just happen and good writers aren't born that way. Good writers become so only after a lot of hard work and a lot of hard thinking about writing. If you want to be a good writer, or at least a better write, then you must write...

Learning to write is a never-ending process. Improving your writing skill can be challenging and difficult even if you love writing -- and incredibly daunting if you hate it. My students and readers ask me all the time how they can become better writ...

I have spent my entire professional life as a writer, editor and teacher of writing. I am published in both fiction and nonfiction including three novels, several newspapers, magazines and web publications. I imagine I will be a professional writer u...

I have spent my entire professional life writing and editing as well as teaching to help others improve their writing skills. I love writing and love helping others learn to write as well. I intend this lens to help others improve their writing by sh...