Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Writing

  • Is Reading Ruining Your Writing?

    A 7-step program for recovering word junkies Writers are almost always devoted readers, and we know that exposure to good writing will help us in our own work. I firmly believe that reading widely and wisely is essential to being a good writer, despite everything else I’m about today. Reading is a good thing; it teaches…

  • Welcome to Notes On the Way Up

    And sometimes down. But then up again. It used to be that to write, one needed “some money and a room of one’s own.” It appears that one also needs a page of one’s own, and so the Rev Dr Sparky has caused to be created Notes on the Way Up. Photo by Jungwoo Hong on Unsplash…

  • The future of cussing

    A PG rant about R-rated language Like all of us in this writerly space, I love words — words flowing through books or blogs, words bounced around a dinner table, words launched from a stage like tractor beams to reel the audience into a new world. And I admit that throughout my adult life, I’ve particularly enjoyed using…

  • Lessons from a year of writing on Medium.

    A little more than a year ago, I started posting short essays and other thoughts here on Medium. Like many others, I have always loved writing in various vocations and avocations, and I was enchanted by the ease of this attractive, ad-free platform. After a few trial essays went off into the silence, as they…

  • “my barbaric yelp…”

    I am deliberately misquoting Walt Whitman because: 1) It seems like a catchy way to introduce a post about Yelping; and 2) Mr. Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is still alive and essential. I think I do some of my best writing on platforms like Yelp. I don’t do it all that often, and I’m not…