Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you a night owl? Someone has probably made you feel bad for that. But I won’t do that to you! Some people bounce out of bed at 5 a.m., wide awake and cruelly cheerful, and knock out 550 words before their coffee has finished […]
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about figurative language from Olaf Olafsson…. The Icelandic writer Olaf Olafsson has been a recent discovery of mine, thanks to a New York Times review of his very
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Frank DeRuosi is a big believer in the maxim, “write what you know.” He says it creates a more realistic environment for the characters and the readers… Frank DeRuosi grew up in East Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived for 26 years before moving to Philadelphia,
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you suffer from time anxiety? Join the club! Most people in the developed world struggle with it, but it needn’t undo your writing. Read on to learn why… I own four clocks and timers in an office that measures roughly 10 feet by 12.
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute 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 New York Times post about food writing… I am a writer. But I am also
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Reading time: Just over 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 Alison Wearing…. An award-winning Canadian writer, playwright and performer, Alison Wearing knows her way around memoir. I recall enjoying
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Reading time: About 1 minute When asked to choose a motto for writing, Iris Hattersley picks: “Keep going when the going gets tough.” Iris Hattersley says she has always enjoyed the study of the English language, and a day doesn’t go by that she doesn’t read. While working on her
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I plan to spend most of my birthday reading, but if you’d like to help my blog, there’s one small thing you could do… This Saturday is my birthday. I’m not going to tell you the number — let’s just say I’ve earned every one
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute 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 and an infographic about how to be a more productive writer…. I review
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Maria Konnikova… My reading affections are more or less equally divided between novels and non-fiction. But in the latter category, I
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