The Habit Blog is the archive of The Habit Weekly. It is a trove of insight, wisdom, and practical advice on a variety of writing topics.
“Sad Stories Told for Laughs” is a special summer series of episodes in which writers speak of their public humiliations for your edification and entertainment. In this episode, memoirist Harrison Scott […]
It’s summertime, and my “Writing with…” series of six-week creative writing classes will continue with one of my go-to authors for light summertime reading. P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster books are hilarious […]
I thought it would be fun to talk about appositives today. An appositive is a noun that renames a noun that comes earlier in a sentence (or, occasionally, prenames a […]
Songs from the Silent Passage explores the literary career of Walt Wangerin, Jr. Matthew Dickerson, edited this collection of essays by Wangerin’s friends and colleagues, including Eugene Peterson, Luci Shaw, Philip […]
The other day I got to wondering whether the word buddy was a corruption of the word brother. This rumination was occasioned by Tom Petty’s song, “Listen to Her Heart,” which is one […]
Sho Baraka is a hip-hop artist, an activist, a co-founder of the AND Campaign, and an author. His new book is He Saw That It Was Good: Reimagining Your Creative Life to […]
Do you want to work and create out of a sense of abundance rather than scarcity? Here’s a good thing to remember: If you are doing good work, everybody else […]
Last week we celebrated the 100th episode of The Habit Podcast with a retrospective of favorite moments from the first 99 episodes. This week is the 101st episode and we’re still celebrating. […]
“This Week on The Habit Podcast” is usually the last section of this letter, but this week I’m promoting the podcast to the main body of the letter in order to […]
Last week my friend and nemesis John Barber posted a very funny story that first appeared on Reddit ten years ago, posted by a Lard_Baron in response to the question, […]
“Sad Stories Told for Laughs” is a special summer series of episodes in which writers speak of their public humiliations for your edification and entertainment. In this episode, memoirist Harrison Scott […]
It’s summertime, and my “Writing with…” series of six-week creative writing classes will continue with one of my go-to authors for light summertime reading. P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster books are hilarious […]
I thought it would be fun to talk about appositives today. An appositive is a noun that renames a noun that comes earlier in a sentence (or, occasionally, prenames a […]
Songs from the Silent Passage explores the literary career of Walt Wangerin, Jr. Matthew Dickerson, edited this collection of essays by Wangerin’s friends and colleagues, including Eugene Peterson, Luci Shaw, Philip […]
The other day I got to wondering whether the word buddy was a corruption of the word brother. This rumination was occasioned by Tom Petty’s song, “Listen to Her Heart,” which is one […]
Sho Baraka is a hip-hop artist, an activist, a co-founder of the AND Campaign, and an author. His new book is He Saw That It Was Good: Reimagining Your Creative Life to […]
Do you want to work and create out of a sense of abundance rather than scarcity? Here’s a good thing to remember: If you are doing good work, everybody else […]
Last week we celebrated the 100th episode of The Habit Podcast with a retrospective of favorite moments from the first 99 episodes. This week is the 101st episode and we’re still celebrating. […]
“This Week on The Habit Podcast” is usually the last section of this letter, but this week I’m promoting the podcast to the main body of the letter in order to […]
Last week my friend and nemesis John Barber posted a very funny story that first appeared on Reddit ten years ago, posted by a Lard_Baron in response to the question, […]
