Reading time: 11 minutes (but easily skimmable) When I was a child I learned that I could make time pass more quickly by reading. Here are more than 52 novels to read during the pandemic… I’ve kept a book diary for the last 25 years. The list comes in handy […]
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Just about everyone in the world is working from home (except for health care workers, grocery clerks and cleaners) right now. As a result, more people than ever before are wondering how to make themselves more effective. Particularly when their attention is pulled in a multitude of directions (kids, household chores, job-related work and monitoring
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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 similes and metaphors from Kristen Arnett… When I heard that the main character in a first novel by Kristen Arnett (pictured above) was
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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: spraddling…. Something about the pandemic is causing me to read more murder mysteries than usual. I’m not sure why except perhaps that
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Reading time: Just over 6 minutes Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. We live in the time of coronavirus, worried about the world’s health, scared about our financial security and bored from being stuck
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Is worry about Covid 19 making it difficult for you to write? (Or has there been any other disruption to your regular schedule?) Here are eight tips that will help you maintain your writing habit even during these extraordinarily difficult times: Keep a regular routine: If you normally get up at 7 am every day
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Have you ever struggled with a Committee of A**holes? 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…. My longtime friend Eve Johnson is a writer, a yoga-instructor
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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 similes from Elizabeth McCracken… Contemporary American writer Elizabeth McCracken has one of the best — most skillful — ears around for figurative language.
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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: scarpered… I don’t read many murder mysteries but when a book is recommended by the New York Times, I’ll consider spending some
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes Some people (like me) love working from home. Others find it frightening or daunting. Here’s how to work from home in a workable way… Is the threat of coronavirus forcing you to work from home for the next few weeks or months? I started working
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