Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’re inclined to delay, postpone or procrastinate, here’s an argument for why you should start writing today… I talk with a lot of people who want to write… eventually. They have an idea for a book. There’s a blog they want to contribute to […]
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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 calm your anxiety… If worry and concern over the pandemic
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 47 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 #131, which discusses how to stop editing while you write. The post first
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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 a series of metaphors from Mary Gaitskill… Is it possible to loathe a book and yet still be overwhelmingly impressed by the author? That is certainly how
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Writer Tara McGuire loves revising, which she calls “collaging” and finds that writing a first draft is “the worst”… Tara McGuire’s first book, Holden After & Before — Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose, a hybrid work in memoir and fiction (Arsenal Pulp
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Reading time: About 3 minutes There comes a time when you should stop reading, start writing. To figure out if this advice applies to you, calculate how many writing books you have on your shelves… How many books on writing do you own? How much time do you spend thinking about
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes 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 why you should charge a flat rate for freelancing… Are you a freelancer who charges by
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Viewing time: 4 minutes 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 #130, which discusses which writing software is best. The post first ran on Feb. 28/20.
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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 by Jonathan Coe…. Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer interested in political issues, satire and music. A graduate of Trinity College,
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Casey Hibbard says that when she doesn’t feel like writing, she works hard to engineer a mindset shift. Read this interview to learn more…. A corporate storyteller, Casey Hibbard helps businesses sell with the voices of their happy customers. She’s the author of the first
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