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 value of learning hard things… What is the value of learning […]
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 31 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #128, which discusses how to juggle tasks related to book writing. The post
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Reading time: About 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 Sy Montgomery… Described by the Boston Globe as, “part Indiana Jones and part Emily Dickinson,” Sy Montgomery is an American naturalist, author
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Frances Peck gets reliable results by using an accountability partner. Read more about her strategy in this interview…. Frances Peck returned to creative writing later in life, after building a career as an editor, ghostwriter, and instructor. Her debut novel, The Broken Places, was a
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Most of us don’t like criticism, but as writers, we need to learn how to be edited. Here’s a great trick for making negative feedback positive…. When I was writing stories for a national magazine, many years ago, I had one editor who particularly irritated
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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 why you should set yourself a writing dare. As a writing coach,
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 9 secs. The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #126, which discusses how to write with a partner. The post first ran
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from Kate Atkinson… I became a fan of the English novelist Kate Atkinson many years ago when I read her 1995 Whitbread-winning book, Behind the Scenes
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Kate Vrancken as the wonderful advice that if you’re not in the mood to write, writing will change your mood. Read this interview to learn more… Kaat Vrancken is a Belgian writer of children’s books and nonfiction in Dutch. She taught creative writing for 15
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Reading time: Just over 5 minutes When I need an immediate boost, I have a list of 21 habits or tricks I can employ to get out of the writing doldrums… I live in a city with many fine attributes: the weather is mild, the mountains are beautiful, the beaches spectacular.
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