By Roy Peter Clark...it covered writing from the "sub-atomic to the metaphysical level." By sub-atomic, he meant the ways words, phrases, and sentences work. By metaphysical, he meant the ways writers live, dream, and work.
- 4/14/2004: Fifty Writing Tools
- 4/15/2004 10:33:27 AM: Writing Tool #1: Branch to the Right
- 4/20/2004 4:20:18 PM: Writing Tool #2: Use Strong Verbs
- 4/28/2004 2:53:22 PM: Writing Tool #3: Beware of Adverbs
- 5/4/2004: Writing Tool #4: Period As a Stop Sign
- 5/11/2004 4:35:11 PM: Writing Tool #5: Observe Word Territory
- 5/18/2004 3:15:22 PM: Writing Tool #6: Play with Words
- 5/25/2004 2:30:24 PM: Writing Tool #7: Dig for the Concrete and Specific
- 6/2/2004: Writing Tool #8: Seek Original Images
- 6/8/2004 5:43:50 PM: Writing Tool #9: Prefer Simple to Technical
- 6/15/2004 5:27:08 PM: Writing Tool #10: Recognize Your Story's Roots
- 6/23/2004 10:17:50 AM: Writing Tool #11 Back Off or Show Off
- 6/29/2004 6:03:24 PM: Writing Tool #12: Control the Pace
- 7/8/2004: Writing Tool #13: Show and Tell
- 7/20/2004 6:12:33 PM: Writing Tool #14: Interesting Names
- 7/20/2004 6:33:20 PM: Writing Tool #15: Reveal Character Traits
- 7/28/2004 4:24:52 PM: Writing Tool #16: Odd and Interesting Things
- 8/4/2004 3:10:40 PM: Writing Tool #17: The Number of Elements
- 8/9/2004: Writing Tool #18: Internal Cliffhangers
- 8/17/2004 4:43:13 PM: Writing Tool #19: Tune Your Voice
- 4/19/2005 11:53:57 AM: Writing Tool #20: Narrative Opportunities
- 9/1/2004 1:26:15 PM: Writing Tool #21: Quotes and Dialogue
- 8/18/2005 2:06:01 PM: Writing Tool #22: Get Ready
- 9/17/2004 7:23:57 PM: Writing Tool #23: Place Gold Coins Along the Path
- 9/22/2004 5:12:49 AM: Writing Tool #24: Name the Big Parts
- 9/29/2004 7:18:25 PM: Writing Tool #25: Repeat
- 9/29/2004 4:33:47 PM: Roy's 'Toolbox' is Filling Up
- 10/7/2004 9:02:26 AM: Writing Tool #26: Fear Not the Long Sentence
- 10/12/2004 6:34:59 AM: Writing Tool #27: Riffing for Originality
- 10/20/2004 5:52:04 PM: Writing Tool #28: Writing Cinematically
- 11/1/2004 8:51:17 AM: Writing Tool #29: Report for Scenes
- 11/10/2004 6:11:15 PM: Writing Tool #30: Write Endings to Lock the Box
- 11/17/2004 5:02:15 PM: Writing Tool #31: Parallel Lines
- 11/24/2004 11:23:03 AM: Writing Tool #32: Let It Flow
- 11/30/2004 3:22:26 PM: Writing Tool #33: Rehearsal
- 12/8/2004 9:29:26 AM: Writing Tool #34: Cut Big, Then Small
- 12/10/2004 6:04:05 PM: Writing Tool #35: Use Punctuation
- 12/21/2004 9:06:07 AM: Writing Tool #36: Write A Mission Statement for Your Story
- 12/28/2004 3:03:46 PM: Writing Tool #37: Long Projects
- 1/5/2005 5:07:13 PM: Writing Tool #38: Polish Your Jewels
- 1/12/2005 1:31:53 PM: Writing Tool #39: The Voice of Verbs
- 1/19/2005 6:55:23 PM: Writing Tool #40: The Broken Line
- 1/25/2005 5:41:31 PM: Writing Tool #41: X-Ray Reading
- 2/2/2005 10:58:33 AM: Writing Tool #42: Paragraphs
- 2/9/2005 4:55:29 PM: Writing Tool #43: Self-criticism
- 2/15/2005 5:35:30 PM: Writing Tool #44: Save String
- 2/28/2005 3:34:00 PM: Writing Tool #45: Foreshadow
- 3/3/2005 3:09:03 PM: Writing Tool #46: Storytellers, Start Your Engines
- 3/8/2005 2:58:12 PM: Writing Tool #47: Collaboration
- 3/15/2005 5:35:31 PM: Writing Tool #48: Create An Editing Support Group
- 3/22/2005 5:03:28 PM: Writing Tool #49: Learn from Criticism
- 3/29/2005: Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
- 4/8/2005 1:37:54 PM: The Writing Tools
- 7/14/2005 1:54:22 PM: Writing Tool #51: Too Many 'ings'