US 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.
US 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.
US 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.
US 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.
US HolidaysNational Library Week has celebrated libraries and librarians since 1958. I have a soft spot for it, because libraries are where both readers and writers are quietly made. A look at what we owe them.
US HolidaysJules Verne imagined submarines and space travel before either existed and is the second most translated author in history. On his birthday, the father of science fiction, reimagined from the inside.
US HolidaysHeinlein is one of science fiction's Big Three and the dean of the genre, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. A look at his plot-driven fiction and the complicated love I hold…
US HolidaysClarke gave us 2001, Childhood's End, and Rendezvous with Rama, and he conceived the communications satellite before it existed. One of the Big Three, and a master of hard science married to genuine wonder.
US HolidaysH.G. Wells founded the opposite half of science fiction from Verne. Where Verne loved the machine, Wells used the impossible to hold a mirror to humanity. A look at the divide that still runs through the genre.
US 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.
US HolidaysPresidents' Day is the third Monday in February. The presidents we remember could write, and the words outlasted the terms. Why it still matters.
US HolidaysColumbus Day is the second Monday in October. An honest look at the Columbian Exchange, the collision of two worlds, and a book that explains it.
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