Reading time: About 3 minutes Most of us text these days, giving our thumbs a good workout. But for serious writers, there’s a typing speed secret you need to learn… My parents wouldn’t let me take typing when I was in high school. Instead, I had to submit to Latin. Latin! As if conjugating verbs […]
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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 what makes a good foreword… Barbara Oakley — professor of engineering at Oakland University and teacher of
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 46 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 #80, which describes why you shouldn’t change horses midstream. The post first ran on Sept. 3/21. Transcript: Welcome
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from Taffy Brodesser-Akner…. I have a friend who used to tell me his favourite movie — by an unbelievably overwhelming margin — was Top Gun.
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Pamela Taylor says that being a successful author involves a lot more than just writing a book… A self-professed history geek, Pamela’s trip-of-a-lifetime may have been the one that allowed her to touch a 700-year-old book. Her novels include the nine-volume series Second Son Chronicles, The Rest of His Days
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If digital happiness has eluded you, consider walking away from your cellphone more often…. Does the idea of digital happiness seem as unattainable as a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Does it sound like the fantasy of having NO emails in your inbox? Or like the
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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 on how to write description… I haven’t written a word of fiction since Grade 10, when I was
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 44 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 #85, which describes how to deal with perfectionism. The post first ran on Aug 27/21. Transcript: Welcome to
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from Elizabeth Wetmore… Before devoting herself to writing, Elizabeth Wetmore tended bar, taught English, drove a cab, edited psychology dissertations, and painted silos and cooling
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Rhona McAdam says she deliberately avoids streaming and other television services, which can eat up too much of her thinking, reading and writing time…. Rhona McAdam was born in BC, has lived in Edmonton and London UK, but now makes her home in Victoria. She spent a memorable year in
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