Active Verbs: Words to Spice Up Any Prose

One of the biggest problems with amateur writing is the use of run of the mill verbiage.  I have seen it time and again when students write fiction or fiction writers pay me to edit their work.  How much better could a piece of prose be if we were to be more creative with something

Creative Writing Techniques for the Essay Writer

In my years of teaching students how to write well formed essays, I have seen my fair share of texts written with boring verbs, humdrum descriptions and lazy constructions.  In order for a student to rise above the chaff of the mediocre scribblings of others, that student must understand that there is much to learn