Category Archives: Christiane Northrup
Expressing our inner questions: Writing and reading as therapy
jacquelinesnider ♦ January 23, 2018 ♦ Leave a comment
Writing was something I started as a very young girl. I could read when I was four and my earliest journals started after my best friend was killed in a fire when I was five, he was only six. That was not something I could make sense of. I wrote from the age of five …
Using plain language in self-help writing connects writers with their readers
jacquelinesnider ♦ December 29, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment
Sometimes when I read self-help books, I have trouble with the language the writers have used to express their ideas. I’m a writer who is firmly in the simple language camp, and I’m not impressed when writers use flowery language or three-dollar words (as my mother calls them) to sound as if they “know” more …
