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 similes and metaphors from Brit Bennett…. Brit Bennett (pictured above) was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from Stanford University. Later, […]
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: xeric…. In addition to being a famous and highly successful novelist, Barbara Kingsolver is also a botanist. Her novels tend to incorporate
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If you are writing a book, understand that, eventually, you will need an author website. Here’s how to go about creating one. Step 1: Decide on your platform. As of 2021, the two easiest-to-install ones are WordPress and SquareSpace. I use the former and many people use the latter. Just be aware that if you’re
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Reading time: Just over 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 about how to sound more human….. Are you a writer who sounds like
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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 such writing from Tejal Rao… I have been a bagel fan since 1980. That year, I made a trip to visit a friend in the East,
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: ouroboros…. I’m a big fan of Geraldine DeRuiter — a travel, food and, really, anything writer — who won a 2019 James
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If you want to improve your writing, one of the first steps you should take is double-checking your readability statistics. If you’ve never heard this term before, the concept was first proposed way back in 1893 by an English professor from the University of Nebraska named Lucius Adelno Sherman. Sherman was the first person to
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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 about how to embrace risk… I work with several hundred writers every year
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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 some metaphors from Rachel Friedman… The book’s subtitle says it all: On Creativity, Potential and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood. A tiny, perfect book by Rachel
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: zoonotic… I read the story in the New York Times because the headline grabbed my attention. “Mothers All Over Are Losing It,”
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