Reading time: About 2 minutes If you’re anything like me, you’ve been watching the news for weeks, obsessively following the U.S. election. So how do you write in times like these? Today, I give you some suggestions…. Today is the most anticipated election in my lifetime. A friend of mine calls it the “mother of […]
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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 an interview with author Agnie Abdou about how to create a writing routine… Angie Abdou is a Canadian author and creative
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Viewing time: 4 mins 25 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 #139, which discusses how to structure a book. The post first ran on May 8/20. Transcript: How do
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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 the metaphorical language of Ottessa Moshfegh…. Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist who was born in Boston with a Croatian mother and an Iranian-Jewish father. Her debut novel, Eileen, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award,
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Early in her writing career, Danila Botha says she didn’t realize how many full in-depth drafts would be required before a book was ready to be published. Danila Botha is the author of three critically acclaimed short story collections, Got No Secrets and For All The Men (and Some of
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Reading time: About 3 minutes You probably already know to write in active rather than passive voice. But did you also know that an active mindset is better than a passive one? I grew up in a troubled household. We were a family of seven, and I was the eldest of five kids. My parents
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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 a blog post about how to improve your home office setting… As a result of the Covid pandemic, my home office became my
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 40 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 #138, which discusses where to keep your research diary. The post first ran on May 1/20. Transcript: Have
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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 Jo Hamya… Joyce Hamya is a young British novelist from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father. She graduated from King’s College London and University of Oxford
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jessica Scroggins says she’s accepted the idea that it’s okay to have a bad first draft. But to do that, she needs to overcome the desire to edit WHILE she writes…. Jessica Scroggins began screenwriting while working in film production and marketing. Her projects have won Telly Awards and have
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