…a time to keep…throw away…tear…mend
PAGECRAFT
You will find key writing services and tips within this page-craft outline. Our views on the craft of writing comes from the wisdom of countless teachers, writers, and scholars who love and enjoy writing both as a hobby and a lifetime career. We share the learned principles of effective writing – language elements, patterns, and strategies – gleaned from reading excellent stories, novels, poems and creative non-fiction.
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- Page One: The Craft of Writing
Articles exploring the art and craft of writing, with a focus on writing the personal essay. What does it mean to put your life story on paper? - Page Pact: Building Our Writing Routine
The small, personal rituals that make our writing uniquely ours. Nudging writers and authors to ‘just write it’ with diligence, discipline, and commitment to the work and routine of writing. - Page Ticks: Writing with a Reader in Mind Focusing on writing that is responsibly aware of a reader, the importance of accountability in the crafting of language.
- Page Notes: Writing in Conversation
How writing connects with other texts and voices of our time, before our time and probably long after. Citing sources in establishing a habit of intertextual reading and writing. - Page by Page: Shaping Our Memories
How to shape the passage of time, memory, and the stories we lived. Exploring recollection and the required courage to go back to the past and record experiences.
RESOUND
- Page Blurb: Crafting Our Stories into Themes
Best practices for writing with compelling focus that draws readers. Towards a thematic structuring of memoir. - Page Checks: Making Every Word Count
The reflexive practice of editing, revision, and critical evaluation of the written text. - Photo Page: Photographs and Memories
The art of description, the use of language devices, images, photographs to allow meanings to resonate deeply. - Page Craft: Honing Our Writing Voice 1
Discovering your voice as a writer. General leanings in the use and application of language tools, identifying models and influences. - Page Craft: Honing Our Writing Voice 2
Citing and validating references, witnesses, and other sources of biographical notes.
RELINE
What do workers gain from their toil? have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
“a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to week and a time to laugh…a time to mourn and a time to dance…”