https://www.expertclick.com/RssFeed.aspx?nrwid=14548&type=releases en My Releases of ExpertClick Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:36:03 GMT Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:36:03 GMT I asked ChatGPT to outline a chapter?is that a problem? Is it okay if I give a chatbot previous writing samples and then ask it to write for me, while editing the results? Can Claude write my nonfiction book proposal for me?So. Many. Questions.The a http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/One-question-to-ask-before-using-AI-in-writing,2026314149.aspx Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:33:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=314149 As readers, we are tuned to find emotions in the text. As writers, our emotions definitely influence the way our ?voice? appears on the page. (You usually know if someone was angry when writing an email, even if they don?t use ALL CAPS!) In this mont http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Voice-Try-a-soundtrack,2026313685.aspx Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:44:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313685 NASA/ESA Hubble Space TelescopeI?ve always been jealous of creative types who wake up with a complete song, poem, or plot in their heads. For most mere mortals, the creative process is much less linear. Creative works often emerge slowly, from a swir http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-beautiful-mess-before-you-draft,2026313463.aspx Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:44:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313463 ?I found a typo in your book!?If you sent me an email with that message and nothing more (except the description of the typo), how should I interpret your tone?Even if I don?t know you, I?ll probably read it as being helpful and feel grateful. I?d ce http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Voice-Mind-your-tone,2026313251.aspx Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:49:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313251 In the winter of 2023, the San Lorenzo River raged well beyond its banks, flooding neighborhoods and seizing fallen trees in its rush to the churning sea. On a recent early October afternoon, it meandered gently, with fallen leaves drifting among rif http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-river-of-voice,2026312992.aspx Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:24:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312992 A Writing Voice exerciseYou wouldn?t use your most professional, formal voice when speaking to a six-year-old, would you? Or your grandmother? (I hope not!)We automatically shift our speaking voice based on our relationship with the listener.We shoul http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Relating-to-the-reader,2026312798.aspx Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:36:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312798 When a long writing project seems like a haul or you cannot find a consistent pace, imagine Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel.In his lovely memoir All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley tells us that each morning, Michelangelo?s helpers http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/A-Days-Work-From-Anne-Janzer-Membership-Expert,2026312576.aspx Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:27:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312576 How present are you, as the writer or narrator, in your writing?Your answer likely varies depending on the context. Consider everyday writing:Text messages? They?re usually personal.Work reports or marketing copy? You may try to disappear into a bran http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Playing-with-presence-on-the-page,2026312351.aspx Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:35:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312351 Did you know that I once hiked the Pacific Crest Trail? Don?t get too impressed ? I only covered a few miles out and back, from an easy roadway access point in the Sierras. The distinction between my quick jaunt (with a light daypack and water) and t http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Planning-the-writing-expedition,2026312127.aspx Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312127 As teenagers figure out who they are becoming as adults and where they fit in the world, they sometimes experiment with other identities. We can apply a similar strategy to finding our writing voice: try on a few extreme alternatives.Today?s writing http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Try-on-another-writing-voice,2026311737.aspx Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:44:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311737 Let us take a moment to appreciate the much-maligned act (or non-act?) of procrastination.Writers?often beat themselves up over procrastinating. Why haven?t I written that novel yet? Why can?t I get around to writing a poem, or working on that book o http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/In-Praise-of-Procrastination,2026311414.aspx Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:10:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311414 A Writing Voice ExerciseWhenever we write for other people (rather than simply for ourselves), that writing becomes a vehicle for our intentions. What do we want the reader to do or feel? Those intentions definitely color the writing voice.Yet you ma http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Flip-your-writing-intention,2026311216.aspx Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311216 The poet Maggie Smith spoke at my local bookshop recently, on tour for her new book Dear Writer, a book of writing advice.? I showed up because I?d just finished her memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.Did you notice the diversity? She identi http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-it-time-to-branch-out-in-your-writing,2026311036.aspx Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:07:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311036 The June Writing Voice exerciseDid you know that the average American reads at a seventh or eight-grade level? [Source.] Depending on what you?re writing and how many people you hope to reach, you might pitch your writing voice to that level. Remembe http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/How-readable-is-your-writing,2026310820.aspx Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:08:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310820 There?s a subtle thief hiding in much nonfiction writing, stealing the life from sentences. Yes, it?s time to talk about dummy subjects?when ?it? and ?there? stand in for an undetermined subject in a sentence.There?s nothing grammatically wrong with http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-Case-of-the-Missing-Subject,2026310615.aspx Wed, 21 May 2025 17:32:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310615 ?I love the way my favorite author breaks their content into paragraphs.??Has anyone ever said that? I doubt it. Paragraphs are overlooked workhorses of prose writing.?You may have learned how to write the ?five sentence paragraph? in school: one top http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Voice-Paragraph-Patterns,2026310392.aspx Wed, 07 May 2025 14:44:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310392 Do you have an abandoned manuscript in somewhere in your files? (Hint: most people who consider themselves writers do.) Not all ideas grow into published works like books, nor is every idea worth polishing and publishing. And some need time to incuba http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Tiny-Writing-Experiments,2026310111.aspx Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:43:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310111 If punctuation is the percussion of your prose, then sentences sing the melody. Like songs, they carry the meaning while landing on the reader?s inner ear in subtle ways. Sentences are also scaffolds for meaning. Bloated sentence structures can bury http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Voice-Sentences-that-sing,2026309894.aspx Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:17:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309894 As writers, we learn from each other in writers? groups, courses, and conferences. Wouldn?t it be cool to also learn from writers who don?t offer classes or aren?t with us anymore?You can. Your favorite authors publish free lessons on writing craft. http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Reading-to-improve-your-craft,2026309663.aspx Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:40:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309663 Punctuation is like the percussion of prose. You may not notice it unless it?s showy, but it holds everything together. Punctuation affects sound of the voice to the reader?s inner ear, while communicating another layer of meaning. Each mark has its http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Voice-Percussive-Punctuation,2026309434.aspx Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:05:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309434 What if ? and I?m only suggesting it?s possible ? you?re making writing harder than it needs to be?We see it all the time:People who happily crank out blog posts tie themselves in knots over writing a book. Why? Because writing a book is supposed to http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-you-trying-too-hard,2026309202.aspx Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:56:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309202 What?s the easiest way to give your writing voice an upgrade? Word bling!Last month, we started the year-long Writing Voice Adventure by reading aloud works from authors we admire and seeing what inspires us. (Check out YouTube for a quick demo of ho http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Voice-Choice-words,2026308983.aspx Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308983 People often complain that they don?t have time to write the book they imagine or to embrace being a ?real? writer. I?ve felt the pressure myself. Lacking time, we shut off the spigot of inspiration.Nope. I?m too busy to be creative.Instead, we defer http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-in-the-margins,2026308654.aspx Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:51:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308654 Did you know that many of us ?hear? an inner voice in our heads while we read silently? ?Voice? isn?t just a metaphor when it comes to writing. People create a writing voice when they read your words. So, we should care what it sounds like to our rea http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-voice-Listening,2026308443.aspx Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:33:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308443 Do you have any unfinished writing projects kicking around? The partial draft of an essay you?ve started, a book proposal in the works, or an unfinished novel? Of course you do! We all do. But is does one weigh on your mind? If so, take a moment to e http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/To-finish-or-not-to-finish,2026308267.aspx Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:57:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308267 https://youtu.be/jTKFogAN04wMy parents were always difficult to shop for. (My mom, bless her, still is.)?One year, on being pressed about what they wanted, my father answered ?Socks.? And Mom? ?A few rocks for the fountain.?Socks and rocks?about the http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Writing-Yoga-The-Gift-of-Writing,2026308035.aspx Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:19:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308035 Why are you reading this blog post? Do you need a quick writing insight, or are you looking for a deep dive?How about the next nonfiction book you pick up? What are your hopes for that?As readers, we approach a blog post or article differently than a http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-Readers-Need-from-Blogs-vs-Books,2026307811.aspx Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:46:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307811 Why are you reading this blog post? Do you need a quick writing insight, or are you looking for a deep dive?How about the next nonfiction book you pick up? What are your hopes for that?As readers, we approach a blog post or article differently than a http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-Readers-Need-from-Blog-vs-Books,2026307787.aspx Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:04:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307787 November?s writing yoga[embedded content]Did you know that most journalists don?t write the actual headlines for their pieces? Somebody else does?because headline writing is a specialized skill. Creating a knowledge gapA good headline not only tells http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Sparking-curiosity-with-headlines,2026307521.aspx Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:07:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307521