Your brain on description
Read the words coffee, camphor or eucalyptus, and the part of your brain most closely related to the sense of smell responds.… Read the full article
Writing workshops, communication consulting and writing services
Read the words coffee, camphor or eucalyptus, and the part of your brain most closely related to the sense of smell responds.… Read the full article
For his latest book, Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee:
To get their stories, other writers have journeyed with a teenage boy from the Honduras to North Carolina to find his mother, eaten nothing but Big Macs for a month and traveled cross-country with Einstein’s brain.… Read the full article
There are two kinds of details: realistic and telling.
“If someone is bald, that’s realistic detail,” writes narrative nonfiction author Lauren Kessler.… Read the full article