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 simile from Rachel Joyce… I read the novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce, about three years ago and found it a delightful summer […]
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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: morganatic…. A Ukrainian-born Russian-registered cossack who became the lover of Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, Count Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky was also rumoured to be something I’d never heard of:
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes It used to be considered bad manners to wear a hat inside. No more! Here’s why you should always wear one of six writing hats when you’re at your computer… While I was reaching for a metaphor about writing last week, my brain suddenly
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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 Brain Pickings blog post about Annie Dillard… Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for
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Reading time: About 2 minute Before you spend your money on a new computer, consider the issue of customer service… Since I started buying computers back in 1987, I’ve gone back and forth between PCs and Macs. But in recent years — ever since the release of the Vista operating system in 2006
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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 simile from Patricia Volk… Food-related memoirs hold a special place in my heart, perhaps because I grew up in a “foodie” family where, after finishing Christmas dinner
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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: perspicacity…. I’ve heard the word perspicacity since I was a child. I’ve probably even used it. But I could no longer remember what
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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 an blog post written by John Ellsworth… John Ellsworth doesn’t know much about how to design an attractive blog
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Reading time: About one minute I’ll get ideas for better workshops wherever I can find them. Here are some tips I gathered recently from a client of mine… As a long-time conference and workshop presenter, I’ve learned several tricks over the years. When I ask the participants at one of my talks
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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: limning. My colleague John Friesen is a voracious reader. I can tell by the wide variety of texts he sends me, usually
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