Changing your environment is one of the best ways to refresh your mind and begin to think differently about a project that is giving you some trouble. Not only can a different environment help you crush writer’s block, it can provide new sensory input that, when mixed with the needs of your writing projects, helps you come up with ideas you never would have produced in your usual writing place.

Communication is changing. Is it okay to use social-media-inspired abbreviations in other mediums? When do you decide to use them and when not to use them? Is the recent major shift in language causing society to degenerate into anarchy? For the answers to these questions–or at least to hear some other very compelling questions related to this issue, read on…