On Words & Onwards!
Well-written words and well-told stories have always had the ability to change the world. Let’s do this.
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The Blog Where It All Started
In 2012, Kris began sharing weekly writing tips for clients and writing community friends on Facebook. After bringing the casual “Writing Tip Wednesday” tradition to this website, readership grew and grew.
Within a few years, her communications reminders were being used in high school and college classrooms across the country, and soon thereafter, Kris found herself with her first book deal. Get a Grip on Your Grammar published in the U.S. in 2017 and in India in 2020.
Word choice matters. How you build your sentence with punctuation is about more than just decorating with ink squiggle confetti. We owe it to ourselves and to everyone who sees our written words to get it right. All right?
Literary Historian Work & Empowering the Human Chapter
Stories outlast moments. Communicating well changes our personal and professional lives, as well as the course of human history.
Kris Spisak still regularly:
- Dons white research gloves and explores dusty archives
- Investigates the secrets of etymologies, famous world stories, and the historical moments that drew writers to begin writing
- Twists words like licorice, tweaking, cajoling, poeticizing, intensifying, and making simple sentence structures shine like new
Storytelling is among humanity’s oldest technologies, and Kris will forever argue it’s still the most powerful one.
“Authors on Editing” Interviews
In celebration of the publication of Get a Grip on your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused (Career Press, 2017), I launched a blog interview series with talented writers working across multiple genres and forms, from fiction to nonfiction to poetry to business writing to journalism and more.
No matter what you write, you’ll learn a lot from their insights on their editing processes.
Editing & Empowerment Courses
Sharpen your indispensable human ingenuity, craft, and voice through Kris Spisak’s masterclasses in writing, editing, and transformative story-driven empowerment.
Books
