Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Celebrate you! For if you don’t, no one will.

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

Love is a battle where one has to die for others EGO.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I want to be played on the radio. I want to have Top 40 hits.

If I had my life to live over again, I would just believe God.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'