Reading time: Less than 2 minutes 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: quailing. I haven’t yet read the book 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress (pictured above), but I know it uses an impressive vocabulary. […]
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Hands up if you spend too much time on your email. This pseudo-work is not helping you and may be exactly what’s preventing you from achieving your writing goals… Have you ever emailed me? If so, you likely received a reply in less than 24 hours. Yet I refuse
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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 an article about Teddy Roosevelt’s 10 rules for reading….. Being a good reader is so intrinsically linked to being a good writer
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Did you know you could rewire your brain? And doing so might just be the first step you need to take to become a better writer… I’ve always been deeply fascinated by the human brain. Perhaps never more so than following my two strokes in 2002 and 2007. Despite having
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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 on writing-related websites… I’ve never written a novel but it’s an idea I toy with from time to time. If
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes Do you ever get bored by work-related parties? Maybe you should be the person to suggest some party games that can help make the event more fun — and more productive… I’ve attended two Christmas/year end parties in the last two weeks. Yes, it’s February. But both workplaces (one was
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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 Cristina Henriquez… I read The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (pictured above) several months ago and both the novel and its characters have remained with me, in my mind’s eye,
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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: clerihew. Earlier this week I wrote about Ben Davis’s marvellous article on 30 art-writing clichés that writers should ditch. But his excellent column also gave me my word
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Do you find it difficult to let go of your writing? Here are some of the reasons why — and exactly what you can do about them… My three children are approaching the end of their college careers. We’re lucky in that they’ve been able to live at home
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Reading time: Less than one 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 article written by Ken Davis. Back when I was a features editor at a metropolitan daily newspaper, I felt particularly
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