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Writing skills improve with practice. That’s an observable fact. Whether you are a student, a teacher or someone else who likes to think about writing, this site presents ideas and simple, practical lessons in writing fiction, poetry, essays, rhetoric and related fields like grammar, logic and vocabulary.
Next to speech, writing is the most common human creative activity. From grocery lists to essays, to sonnets, to speeches, to lab reports, to screenplays, to academic papers, all writing is in some way creative as it requires the ability to use language to represent ideas and objects. This enormous creative potential and the basic knowledge needed to become a more skillful writer are the subjects of these pages.