This year I officially crushed my reading goal. Actually, I crushed the idea of choosing some arbitrary number of books to read, and it was a fantastic decision. Setting an annual reading goal began when I was teaching high school English. Part of our curriculum incorporated independent reading time into every class to encourage our students to find their love of the subject. We guided our students to select books that aligned with their individual interests and reading lev

Writing is not easy. It’s a long, messy process that includes drafting, deleting, drafting again, reorganizing, rewording, and then sometimes trashing the whole thing and starting the process all over again. Take, for example, this post. Captivate readers by tailoring your writing to a specific target audience Besides the usual excuses for procrastinating (“Oh, I’m just so busy” or “I’m putting together a plan in my head”), there’s also the act of sitting down and typing it a

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