Try focusing on your wants — When the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March 2020, everyone was baking that perfect sourdough, perfecting their Spanish language skills, or learning acoustic guitar (on social media anyway). I felt like I should be taking advantage of this time, of all of the wonderful offerings from my favorite creative…

You have 10 minutes; go! — You don’t have all day; really you don’t. You have something you want to say, you want to craft it into an article or a story, and you want it to be done already (most writers — beginning, intermediate, and expert — find writing a painful process). …

Common errors and copy editor pet peeves to avoid — Here at Medium, when it comes to copy editing, we believe “copy style is like design with words.” (Iris, one of our copy editors, wrote that CE poetry!) Our copy editors are the gatekeepers of that word design, the house style, and general good grammar across Medium’s owned publications. They’re…