It’s not a choice most people agonize over. Most people have a
favorite. Most people just know which they prefer. They don’t have to
think when the cashier asks them. For them, the choice between
decadent and classic, rich and simple, dark and light… it’s easy.
Not me. I have two problems:
My first problem is that I love both [...]

It’s often tempting to make a character sketch narrative. But a character sketch should really be more of a series of small, yet detailed, observations that when taken as a whole give the reader insights into the character. Think of it like a hill of sand. All the different grains of sand themselves are insignificant, but take a shape when put together. The most important thing is to make the character is three-dimensional, and in doing so bring them alive.

I was strolling down Park Avenue the other day when the revolving door at 857 caught my eye and drew me in. I found myself in the lobby of an office building, people hustling to and fro. Ding! The elevator doors were opening. A crowd rushed off and I got on. When we came to [...]

The young man smiles nervously as he waits in the reception area of Sterling Cooper. He grips his hat firmly in his hands and taps it over and over with his fingers. His tan overcoat spills across his wrists and over his briefcase and glistens ever so slightly from the misty [...]

Wayne is a man in his mid-40’s, recently coming to light when he responded to an ad for a medically knowledgeable copy writer. He was from out of town, somewhere in the mid-West, where he grew up and married and then abandoned his high school sweet-heart.
He attended medical school in Texas but could not complete [...]