Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about some figurative language employed by Colum McCann. I read the Colum McCann novel Let the Great World Spin more than seven months ago. It took me four efforts to get through […]
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Reading time: About 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: petrichor. Today I have a word that I did not discover through my reading, but, instead, learned from my son. The word is petrichor. Isn’t that mellifluous? This noun
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Reading time: About 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 written by Thomas Chatterton Williams… Is reading really a “dangerous game” for writers? As a writing coach who always encourages
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute Here’s a public speaking technique that requires nerves of steel but that will give you a very big pay-off… Have you ever seen a public speaker who is prepared to abandon the “safety” of his or her lectern? It is riveting! I’ll never forget the time produced an event
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Reading time: Just over 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: snaggletoothed. I read the novel A Christmas Hope (in April, no less!) purely because I saw it on the shelf of the library and I had long
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Reading time: Just over 2 minutes The Hemingway App promises to make your writing bold and clear. How does it do that? Most writers today strive to avoid the passive voice. Do you know what I mean by passive? Don’t be too quick to say yes! It may be easy to identify the blatantly obvious
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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 an article by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in the New York Times… When heard about Klout this week — a social media scoring
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute When you’re training people make sure they have the basics — including enough food to make their brains work properly…. Does your company ever provide continuing education to employees? If so, congratulations! It helps employees become more productive and it makes them happier, feeling as though their company really
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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 simile from David Leavitt. I read my first David Leavitt novel, The Lost Language of Cranes, more than 20 years ago and I can still remember being terribly impressed with his
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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: ineluctably. As a longtime fan of the book The War of Art, I was delighted to discover that author Steven Pressfield has a delightful and active blog. And
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