Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Are you expecting TOO MUCH of yourself? Don’t let your BHAGs take control of your life…. You know what a BHAG is, right? It’s a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (pronounced like this: Bee Hag). I’m sure you have a few BHAGs lurking in your consciousness. They might relate 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 the importance of transitions…. I’ve long thought that mature, sophisticated writers use almost an inordinate number of
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 49 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 #147, which discusses how to avoid being the difficult client. The post first ran on July 3/20. Transcript:
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Reading time: Just over 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 writer Rachel Cusk…. Rachel Cusk is not much interested in plot. Or characters. Her widely praised 2014 novel Outline — the first in a
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Rebecca Morris says the simple activity of walking helps her to pay attention to the sensory details so important to her work… Rebecca Morris is a Montreal writer who published her debut novel, Other Maps, in September 2024. Her short stories have won the Malahat Review Open Season Award for Fiction and the
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Reading time: About 3 minutes This might sound like heresy on the last day of the year, but I’m encouraging you to ditch the resolutions and opt for rituals instead…. The lure of making resolutions for Jan. 1 is practically irresistible. Lose 10 lbs. Go to the gym three times per week. Stop smoking. Start
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There’s no Power Writing from me today as I’m taking some time off this week to celebrate Christmas and the new year. I hope you get a break, too, and I’ll be back in time for next week’s post, Dec. 31. Happy New Year!
Viewing time: 4 mins. 41 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 #146, which discusses how to deal with reader’s block. The post first ran on June 26/20. Transcript: How
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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 series of metaphors from American writer Emily Nussbaum…. I like writers who are funny. Add a dash of insightful, and I like them even more. Plain and simple, this explains
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Lynda Williams swears by the contrarian but life-affirming motto that we can do some of our best work on our worst days…. Lynda Williams is a short fiction writer based in Calgary, Alberta. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Grain, The New Quarterly, and the Humber Literary Review,
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