On this week's episode of How to Write Good, I continue with my second rule: Grammar serves meaning, where I talk about everything from creoles, pidgins, babies babbling, grammar rules, grammar non-rules, and my pet peeves. Stay in touch by visiting my website, www.danielpoppie.com.

On this week's episode of How to Write Good, I continue with my second rule: Grammar Serves Meaning, where I talk about everything from creoles, pidgins, babies babbling, grammar rules, grammar non-rules, and my pet peeves. Stay in touch by visiting my website, danielpoppie.com.

In this episode of #howtowritegood, I am a hypocrite. Though I promised that I would never tell anyone how to write, I am presenting my rules for writing. With these rules, I am attempting to find what is true for writing across the board. What is the first rule? Writing follows after language. Learn how to write by learning how to write on How to Write Good. As always, stay in touch by visiting my website, www.danielpoppie.com.

In this episode of #howtowritegood, I am a hypocrite. Though I promised that I would never tell anyone how to write, I am presenting my rules for writing. With these rules, I am attempting to find what is true for writing across the board. What is the first rule? Writing Follows after Language. Learn how to write by learning how to write on How to Write Good. As always, stay in touch by visiting my website danielpoppie.com

Author Peter Laws joins me on this episode of How to Write Good, and we discuss why people enjoy getting scared (which really doesn't make much sense to me at all).

Find out more about Peter on his website, www.peterlaws.co.uk. You can also follow him on Twitter @peterlaws or check out his book that came out yesterday, "The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death, and Gore."

Stay in touch with me at my website at www.danielpoppie.com.

On this week's episode of How to Write good, I talk about how writing is not a glamorous endeavor. Good writing does not come from sudden flashes of genius that send the writer into an hour-long writing binge. They come from setting aside a little bit of time every day and writing. Check out my website to stay in touch at www.danielpoppie.com.

In this episode, I talk about how reflecting on past writers is important to building the skill of writing, but too many people see mimicking others as the primary way in which good writing is developed. Since the language has changed, so too has good writing, and writers should seek to experiment and find what sounds and fits best with the current language (and possibly even the future of the language) to find their unique voice. Check out my website at www.danielpoppie.com to keep up with​ my writing and the other creative things I am doing.

On this 46th Episode of How to Write Good, I discuss the elevating issues in the plays of Shakespea... No, I don't. On this week's episode, I discuss how I believe that individuals in the English literature world believe that they enjoy Shakespearean plays. When studying Shakespeare, I noticed the tendency to assume Shakespeare and therefore look at how Shakespeare is a genius first, rather than first looking at Shakespeare to see whether his plays have merit in our modern world. Join me this week and find out how you can make someone famous. As always, check out my website, www.danielpoppie.com, and, rate How to Write Good on iTunes, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts (but especially iTunes).

Writing your first book is a daunting task, especially when you look back at what you've written and see it ain't that good. But you're in good company. Today I have a writer of historical fiction, Clint Gilman. Clint and I talk about the writing process and crappy first drafts.

Difficulties in life are inevitable. Pain is inevitable. Suffering, inevitable. But writing can help us understand the entropy and do something with it. This week ​may actually be relevant to more people than writers. I talk about the power of writing to take chaos and distill even the most disordered emotions and bring them into order. ​