Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Looking for some recommended books in time for summer reading? Here’s my semi-annual roundup of books I’ve read this year. I aim to read 52 books every 12 months, and my habit is to post a complete list of the names of them for you, in
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A member of this group recently asked me whether I thought they should take advantage of the “momentum” they were currently feeling. In this particular case, it meant the writer would have had to defer research and planning, so that they could write. The downside, they admitted, was that their writing would be a bit […]
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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 winning a James Beard award… I follow plenty of bloggers (about 70
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes You may think today’s world belongs to the tech geeks. But, really, it belongs to the writers. Here’s how to improve your writing…. I sometimes divide the world into two camps: people who can write, and those who can’t. But there’s probably an even
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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 the words ‘but’ and ‘actually’…. I read a blog post this week
Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you need better blogging ideas? Here’s a formula to stop your struggle with finding topics for your blog…. I happen to enjoy cooking so I almost never object to making dinner. It’s fun and it helps me relax after a day of work. The
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I understand the headline above — about being too busy to write — might sound like crazy talk. Especially as it’s coming from a writing coach. What type of coach encourages her clients not to write? Well, I sometimes do, (note the limiter “sometimes”) because I understand that writing is not the only responsibility you […]
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Here is my FAQ on how to be a better researcher: Q-Where should I begin researching? The first thing you need to do is to give yourself a broad overview of the subject area you’re focusing on. Doing this might be as simple as reading an encyclopedia entry or spending an hour on the Internet […]
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Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Did you know you can help your writing with reading? Here are some tricks for doing just that… Do you ever reflect on how remarkable it is to be able to read? We can pick up books (or, increasingly, screens) and translate a bunch
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Here are four examples of very different types of voice. The first is by a client of mine, a Manhattan-based Buddhist monk who goes by the name Soken. Let me begin by reading from a piece he wrote for a website called The Millions. The headline was: Leonard Cohen and Zen. I met Leonard Cohen—then a […]
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