Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you making writing too hard for yourself? Here are seven common mistakes that plague many people… When I wrote my first book, 17 years ago, I struggled to sit down to produce the first draft. I procrastinated constantly (I’d rather have worked on my […]
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material. Today I discuss the concept of a numbers game for writers… Are you familiar with the writer Steven Pressfield? He is perhaps best known for his views on
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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 metaphors from Fern Brady…. Fern Brady is a Scottish comedian, podcaster and writer. She achieved fame as a stand-up comedian at venues like the Edinburgh
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you ever let your mind wander? Here’s why that might actually be a good idea… You’re lying on your couch reading a book, and all of a sudden you realize you’ve read three pages and you don’t have a clue what’s been going on
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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 how to find comparable books…. If you’re an aspiring book author who’s
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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 metaphors from Sigrid Nunez… Sigrid Nunez is a talented American author who won the 2018 US National Book Award for Fiction for her seventh novel, The Friend, a
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jen Frankel says the Oscar Wilde quote, “It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating,” helps keep her grounded as a writer. Jen Frankel is the author of the vegan zombie romantic satire Undead Redhead and the Blood & Magic series. Her
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you ever find yourself writing through uncertainty, you’ll likely feel uncomfortable. But, instead, thank your lucky stars you have a chance to write this way… I met with a client just last week who was stuck in the messy middle of his book. He’d
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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 posts to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to shorten copy that’s too long….. Do you habitually write too
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Reading time: About one minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about the metaphors of Liz Moore…. Liz Moore is an American author and an Associate Professor of English at Temple University, where she serves as the Creative Writing
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