Daphne Gray-Grant, Author at Publication Coach

Reflections on writing with Madelaine Caritas Longman

Reading time: About 2 minutes Madelaine Caritas Longman estimates that estimate that for most people, writing is at least 80% rewriting… Madelaine Caritas Longman is the author of the poetry collection The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), which received the Quebec Writers Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in PRISM […]

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The five-minute workday

Reading time: About 4 minutes Does a five-minute workday sound ludicrous to you? It shouldn’t. Not if you want to establish a sustainable writing habit… Have you spent days, weeks, months, perhaps even years failing to find enough time to write? Perhaps failing to find any time to write? I have three suggestions for you.

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Grammar myths you can ignore

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 grammar myths… When I was in high school, I learned how to crank out essays that could

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Dealing with burnout and boredom (video)

Viewing time: 4 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 #155, which addresses burnout and boredom in writing. The post first ran on Sept. 18/20. Transcript: How

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Claire Lombardo’s figurative language

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 similes from Claire Lombardo…. Claire Lombardo (pictured above), is a fiction writer, teacher, and 2017 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first novel, The Most Fun We

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Reflections on writing with Kit Daven…

Reading time: About 2 minutes Write Kit Daven keeps a mantra posted near her computer. It reads: By Any Means Necessary…. Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Her sci fantasy series, A Xiinisi Trilogy (The Forgotten Gemstone, The Other Castle, and The Starry Rise), possesses demonly threads running

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13 ways to boost your writing by catching more ZZZZZs…

Reading time: about 4 minutes To be a truly productive writer you need plenty of shut-eye. The absence of sleep will not only negatively affect your health, but it will also hurt your writing… Here’s how to get more sleep: I think a lot about sleep. A trip I once took to Italy left me

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How to deal with criticism of your writing….

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 TED talk about how do deal with criticism of your writing… Writers are orchids, not daisies. They need special care

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Should research diaries be assessed? (video)

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 #154, which addresses whether research diaries should be assessed by teachers. The post first ran on Sept. 11/20.

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James McBride’s figurative language…

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 from James McBride…. I’ve been a dedicated reader since I was six years old. But if you backed me up against a wall and forced me to

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