by Eric Cummings | Jun 10, 2013 | Tips For Writers
Way back in 8th grade, I learned a lesson that changed the way I write. Learning how to write five-paragraph essays — our first such essays ever — our class was debating how long they should be. Suddenly, our teacher started laughing. “They’re like mini...
by Eric Cummings | Feb 14, 2011 | Tips
Are there such things as ‘writing rules’? If so, what one – or two – writing rules apply to every writer? Some background. In my first creative writing class, the professor made something clear: there were no writing rules. He explained that...
by Eric Cummings | Mar 1, 2010 | Fiction, Tips
First, there was the “old school.” A bunch of stubborn grammarians got together and decided what defined “proper English.” Don’t end sentences with prepositions, never begin a sentence with “and” or “but,” and...
by Eric Cummings | Dec 17, 2009 | Become a Top Blogger, Fiction, Tips
I learned what I consider the “Golden Rule of Writing” – the only rule that can help every writer – in the first creative writing class I ever took. Of course, I didn’t learn the rule immediately, or even in the first class. My classmates and I...
