Slimming Down the Dirk Hoyle Way

Raised in a basketball family and playing the sport since I was three, I should have easily made my high school team.  But in the summer before 9th grade, with fall tryouts looming, I looked more like the Michelin Man than Karl Malone.  With a premature beer belly and moobs to boot, I needed help, [...]

10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Via Copyblogger.

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

Obviously, writers are readers too; they also analyze and study their craft, in a continual growing process.  But the point here is valid that the best [...]