rhetoric | Purposeful Prose

An Exposé on Exposition Part 2: Planting the Seeds

Fiction is incredibly difficult to write. While a writer of any text is responsible for their world's creation, the author of fiction...

The Tools of Our Gatekeepers

Purposeful Prose began with an examination of older methods by which writing and writing education has been studied. Some of the...

The Importance of Forming New Habits - Part 2

Sometimes, writers come to me with projects that they initially thought were going to be easy. When they're introducing their piece to...

Meddling with Writing as Simulation

As an editor, when I see "in fact," I usually get rid of it. I'm not opposed to passive voice and I'm very lenient with a lot of...

Style Guides: The Pros and the Cons

Those who write professionally, whether they are a student or in a career that focuses on writing, usually abide by some kind of style...

An Interview With a Professional Comedy Writer and Story Narrator - Part Two

This is the second and final part of my interview with MoonHorse. Names are censored to protect the privacy of the individual being...

Taking Agency in Writing

Thus far, as I have been reading post-process theorists, each has personally acknowledged the revolutionary nature of process theory,...

The Best Possible Means of Persuasion?

Post-process theorist George Pullman in his essay entitled, "Stepping Yet Again into the Same Current," sets up a rhetorical narrative on...

Making it Your Own: Five Tips to Create Your Personalized Writing Plan

Throughout this series on "Planning in Writing," I've laid out and updated older writing and writing planning strategies, presenting...