What approaches can writers take so that a reader will recall our words long after time has dimmed the memory for everyone else? My latest guest essay for the Brevity Blog explores that question by revisiting two magazine articles I read as a child that have stuck with me for decades. Read the full essay here .

By Ronnie Blair   The em dash would seem to be an innocent enough punctuation mark, doing its job without asking anything in return and...

By Ronnie Blair The 78-year-old juvenile novel stood out in the book dealer’s booth at the annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair  in St....

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