Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you lose writing time to doomscrolling? Here are seven ways to stop doomscrolling… Are you guilty of doomscrolling? I know I am! And frankly, I’m getting tired of my own nonsense. My distraction of choice is the New York Times, and I’ll scroll through […]
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to be a writer with young kids… I went back to
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from Tarquin Hall…. I’ll be honest. I never thought I’d read a novel with the words “love commandos” in the
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Writer Beni Xiao urges writers not to adopt the voice of previous generations, but to write so that current-day audiences can understand what they are saying. Beni Xiao is an artist and author of Bad Egg (2017, Rahila’s Ghost Press). They are queer, trans, disabled,
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Have you been misled into thinking that writing improvement is always linear — moving forward in a predictable way? A recent email from a client started me thinking about the lies we tell ourselves about progress. Here, in part, is what she said: “I am
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about social media versus the phone… When I was a teenager, we had one phone in our house,
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from Carys Davies…. Carys Davies is a British novelist and short story writer. She studied modern languages at Oxford, and worked as a
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Andrew Binks says that having the chance to ruminate, without being connected to any device, helps to make him a better writer…. Andrew Binks is the author of two novels, Strip (Nightwood Editions, long listed for the Lambda awards) and The Summer Betweeen (Nightwood Editions).
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Many of us spend huge chunks of our days writing email. If this is one of your jobs, here’s how to write better email…. Did you know that more than half of people who receive email cite it as a source of workplace complexity, confusion
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a post describing how fewer Americans are reading books for fun… Here is news that should alarm any writer: The number
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