By Skip Morris Among those poets, essayists, and fiction writers who pass judgment on one another’s genres, all seem to agree: the how-to branch of expository writing is the lowest on the literary tree. A plausible view I suppose: how-to writing must be straightforward—metaphor becomes almost a sin. Artful shadow meanings become risky indulgences. And […]

Writing “How To” Instructions: What I Learned from the Lowest Genre