Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Rachel Kushner…. Rachel Kushner is an American writer, currently living in Los Angeles. Her fourth and most recent novel (2024), Creation Lake, was long-listed for the National Book […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jasmine Ruff says that writers shouldn’t fixate on form. She says she’s seen mediocre fiction writers become brilliant poets and vice versa…. Jasmine Ruff is a queer writer living in Vancouver — the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her writing has been published in
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Here is a long list of hacks to help you increase your writing motivation so that it really supports you…. Have you heard of the national competition that challenges people to write a novel in 30 days, NaNoWriMo? I haven’t participated. But I have written and published two books —
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about wake up time… I have been a morning lark for the last 20 years. This means I wake up between 5:30 and
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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 images from David Szalay…. The writer David Szalay was born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. (His surname is pronounced SOL-loy.) Although his family
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Reading time: About two minutes Sue Dvorak says that talking about writing is usually a mistake. Instead, it just burns up the drive you’ve had to do it… Sue Dvorak is a physiotherapist and a mother of six now-adult children. She dabbled in writing on and off over the years, then four years ago, began
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Reading time: About 5 minutes (faster to scan) Do you ever write down what you need to accomplish? Here’s why all writers need checklists… Before I get into today’s column, can I ask for a quick favour? I’m looking for testimonials from people who get value from my newsletter. If that describes you, would you
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss why you shouldn’t be too quick to listen to agents…. In a recent column, publishing expert Jane Friedman tells the heartbreaking story of an author who
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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 metaphors and similes from Coco Mellors… Coco Mellors is a British writer living in the U.S. and known for her work in novels, copywriting, journalism, and scriptwriting. Mellors earned a Master
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah WaterRaven says writing is no different from any other profession…. Sarah WaterRaven is an urban fantasy author who says she kills people and then distracts readers with pixies. She is the author of Detective Docherty and I Fell in Love with a Necromancer. I was excited to talk to
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