Daphne Gray-Grant, Author at Publication Coach

Why small habits make a big difference

I recently wrote a blog post about 10 books that changed my life. One work that didn’t make the list but that probably should have was James Clear’s very fine book Atomic Habits. (I didn’t include it because I’d already named two other books with the word ‘habit’ in the title, and because I thought […]

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What does ‘tamasha’ mean?

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: tamasha…. I don’t typically read murder mysteries, particularly not ones in a series, which I often find a bit too predictable for my taste. Nevertheless, my neighbours

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background music while writing — Credit: UNSPLASH

Are the sounds of silence helpful or harmful to writers?

Reading time: Less than 5 minutes Do you find music helps you to write or are the sounds of silence more golden to your ears? Here’s what science has to say about background music while writing…. When I was a child, my mother strictly limited our television viewing. In the days of those ugly black

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What’s the right amount of time to spend planning?

Do you spend too much time planning? Or not enough? It can be tricky to master the ‘planning-to-writing ratio’ so it works just right for you. Here’s how I tell the difference: Over-planners (and I sometimes consider myself to be one of these people) are usually aware of the problem in themselves. They are obsessed

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What does ‘shura’ mean?

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: shura… I enjoyed Amy Waldman’s remarkable first novel, Submission, so much that I asked for a copy of her second book, A Door in the Earth as

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Is a frozen shoulder killing your writing?

Reading time: Less than 5 minutes Do you work at beating bad writing habits? Don’t just ignore them! Instead, deal with them promptly — before they become deeply engrained… I was sitting on a bus last week —one of those long painful rides that seemed to be taking almost a century — when I turned

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How do you know when you’ve finished writing?

Today’s subject is “How do you know that you’ve written enough? That is, how do you decide when you’re finished?” Thanks so much to Joan Rush for suggesting this excellent topic. I want to begin by quoting Priscilla Long who is a fabulous writer and teacher — she’s based in Seattle — and if you’re

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10 books that changed my life

Reading time: About 5 minutes Have you ever read a book that had an all-out-of-proportion impact on you? Today’s post gives you 10 books that changed my life. The New York Times last week ran an article under the headline “the book that changed my life.” The paper had asked its readers to pick a

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Giving procrastination the old heave-ho

So, if you want to give up your habit of procrastinating, be sure you ask yourself what you’re getting from it. (We don’t procrastinate because we’re stupid. Or lazy! We procrastinate because we usually have very logical reasons for not wanting to do something.) The best way to get to the core of the issue

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How do you deal with being sick?

There’s a particularly nasty strain of flu going around this year. I know because my husband caught it two weeks before Christmas. I knew he was really sick because he took a day off work, something he’s done only three times in the 32 years we’ve been together. (When fighting a bug, he washes his

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