Writing Craft HolidaysWorld Storytelling Day celebrates oral storytelling, the spoken kind, not just the written. That distinction matters: story runs through your whole life, not just your manuscript, and shapes how you understand everything.
Writing HolidaysNational Proofreading Day promotes error-free writing, but real proofreading is bigger than typos. The dangerous errors aren't spelling mistakes, they're failures of logic and clarity. A look at what a true pass catches.
Writing HolidaysNational Punctuation Day fights sloppy punctuation, and the marks are having a strange moment. A case for learning the rules cold before AI quietly forgets them for you, and why they still matter.
Writing HolidaysThe National Day on Writing celebrates why and how people write, under the hashtag #WhyIWrite. My answer is simple: writing is something you do, not something you discuss. A look at the work behind the impulse.
Writing Craft HolidaysAgatha Christie became the best-selling novelist in history, behind only the Bible and Shakespeare. She created Poirot and Miss Marple, and her mastery of plot is on my mind as I'm about to write mysteries of my own.
Writing Craft HolidaysBradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, the book that hooked me for life. On his birthday, a look at the lyrical, humane science fiction that took hold of me and never let go.
Writing Craft HolidaysShakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets and shaped English more than anyone, and he never worked for me on the page, only live on stage. A look at why the plays demand performance to come alive.
Writing Craft HolidaysDickens gave us A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and the word Dickensian. I was forced to read him in school and hated it, and yet I watch every adaptation. A look at the gap between assigned reading and real love.
Writing Craft HolidaysPoe invented the modern detective story and helped build modern horror, and wrote the poems every American kid gets assigned. I'm living proof that school can't kill a great writer, even when it tries.
Reading HolidaysNational Reading Month is a time to celebrate reading for its own sake. So here's an honest confession from a writer: the handful of books I have read forty times, and what makes a book worth returning to.
Writing Craft HolidaysNational Comic Book Day celebrates the medium that taught a lot of us to love stories. I owned early Iron Man and Spider-Man issues, lost them all, and once trashed boxes of comics, and learned from all of it.
ObservancesNational Camera Day honors the machine itself, from a 50-pound box of plates and chemicals to the device in your pocket. A look at how the camera changed the way I see, and how that seeing feeds my writing.
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