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Top-3 Teachers
William Joseph Clabby, Dorothy Jean Worthy, and Robert E. Heninger.

J.J. Richardson
Aug 25, 202210 min read


Dry Humor to Wet Your Whistle
The greatest benefit of dry humor is you get to skip the awkward, unnatural machinations of ordinary joke-telling.

J.J. Richardson
Aug 4, 20228 min read


How to Be an Ideal Parent
How can we manage the task of raising children over a twenty-year span when it seems no one knows for sure how to do it?

J.J. Richardson
Jul 25, 202214 min read


What's Wrong with Ideal Heroines?
If everything else is idealized in fiction, why can’t women be, also?

J.J. Richardson
May 2, 20224 min read


Sincerity
How can we impart knowledge, wisdom, and kindness to our relatives, friends, neighbors, and coworkers, without sincerity?

J.J. Richardson
Apr 4, 20226 min read


The Ubiquitous I
A common problem beginning authors have when writing in first person is to overuse the word, “I.”

J.J. Richardson
Mar 12, 20225 min read


Ideal Pace
To keep a steady pace, you must keep an unsteady pace.

J.J. Richardson
Dec 29, 20215 min read


All About Copyrights and Patents
I have assembled this summary where all pertinent information regarding copyrights and patents is found.

J.J. Richardson
Dec 19, 20218 min read


Patient Persuasion
Central to all human interaction
is persuasion.

J.J. Richardson
Dec 5, 20215 min read


Low Self-esteem
At some point most of us learn that bullies are weak people. We learn they’re not so tough once we’ve had enough and finally confront them.

J.J. Richardson
Oct 28, 20216 min read


Top-10 Paragraphs
Why are there numerous sites devoted to Top-10 Movies, Top-10 Fiction Books, and Top-10 NFL players, but none for Top-10 Paragraphs?

J.J. Richardson
Oct 6, 202111 min read


Ideologue
I long for persuasion over coercion, teaching over indoctrination, and example over cancellation.

J.J. Richardson
Sep 24, 202110 min read


Procrastination
Rest assured, procrastination is not about laziness or lack of self-control.

J.J. Richardson
Sep 20, 20215 min read


Advice for Engaged Couples
Here is the most important and concise list of principles I can find for young people considering marriage.

J.J. Richardson
Aug 25, 20213 min read


Tantrum Movies
It’s a tragedy when a moviemaker causes the story’s theme to become the story itself and dominate over the plot like a pack of wolves.

J.J. Richardson
Jul 28, 20216 min read


What is a Conservative?
The modern conservative movement is in line with the liberal movement of the 1960s.

J.J. Richardson
Jul 22, 202115 min read


Stop Asking Me Questions
It's your job as the author to answer questions, not the reader's.

J.J. Richardson
Jun 29, 20215 min read


The Best Mother
I learned over the years that our mother wasn't the meanest mother in the word, but the best.

J.J. Richardson
Jun 20, 20218 min read


How to Get My Characters to Act
Few articles are written about how to get fictional characters to act. This article explains how to do it.

J.J. Richardson
May 30, 20214 min read


Plastic Recycling
It didn’t take me more than a half-hour of casual Internet research to understand why we’re not recycling plastics like we wish we could.

J.J. Richardson
May 16, 20214 min read


The Assumption Mark
The rules of English grammar provide us with question marks, exclamation marks, and quotation marks, but no assumption mark.

J.J. Richardson
Apr 5, 20212 min read


The Future of Storytelling
Reciting tales has been a part of human life from the earliest discovered cave drawings until the present day.

J.J. Richardson
Mar 12, 20213 min read


Copy That
In our lives do we seek to personify the attributes of the Great Creator or the Great Copier?

J.J. Richardson
Mar 2, 20212 min read


A Brief History of Science Fiction
I offer only the fun bits. Enough for you to be popular at parties, but not sufficient to pass a college course in literature.

J.J. Richardson
Feb 2, 20216 min read
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