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Explore these free resources and tools for writers developed by international writing expert Helen Sword.
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The Writer’s Diet
Shape up your sentences and strip unnecessary padding from your prose with Helen Sword’s famous Writer’s Diet workout.
The Writing BASE
Broaden and deepen the Behavioral, Artisanal, Social, and Emotional dimensions of your writing practice with this diagnostic tool.
SPACE Gallery
Revive your joy in writing with a visit to this colorful gallery of drawings collected as part of Helen Sword’s Writing with Pleasure research.
Helen’s Word
Explore these free YouTube videos for academic writers, professional writers, creative writers – anyone who wants to develop and maintain a flourishing writing practice.
Zombie Nouns
Zombie nouns transform simple and straightforward prose into verbose and often confusing writing. Keep your sentences free of elongating nominalizations!
WriteSPACE Quiz
Not sure where to begin your writing journey? Take our “What’s Your Writing Roadblock?” quiz to find your own best route to productive, pleasurable writing.
Smudge Skittle
Prompt your students (and yourself!) to write more critically and creatively with this playful open-ended card game that tangles artistic thinking with written reflection.
Digital Writing Tools
Learn about the key features, advantages, limitations, and pedagogical potential of six popular online spelling, grammar, and style checkers.
Writing Writing Everywhere
Read about how academics from across the disciplines have engaged their students with the theme of “writing writing everywhere,” both in and beyond the classroom.
The Stoneflower Path
Explore the creative potential of digital poetry and poetics by wandering the The Stoneflower Path, a gallery of digital poems that can be experienced either as static texts, audio recordings, or interactive multimedia hypertexts.
The Artist*Academic
Browse our collection of resources and case studies for incorporating arts-inspired practices into your own research, teaching, and leadership.
Links
Click into this compendium of writing-related videos, articles, interviews, and book reviews by or about Helen Sword.
Main image credit - Artist: Helen Sword, Rēinga