Viewing time: 4 mins. 50 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 #134, which discusses how to make editing less painful. The post first ran on April 3/20. 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 metaphors from Elena Ferrante…. I came late to the Elena Ferrante parade. The pseudonymous Italian novelist published the first of her four famous novels — known collectively as the Neopolitan novels —
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Caroline Dohack says she uses the same strategies she employs as a runner in order to encourage herself to write…. Caroline Dohack is a journalist who covers culture, technology and business. She also is an adjunct professor with the Stephens College fashion program in Columbia, Missouri. She is currently working
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’ve ever been proud of something you find easy to do, ask yourself this: Can talents become weaknesses? I’m what you might call a “born” editor. I started editing when I was in high school. My papers. My friends’ papers. I thought it was fun and interesting. I continued
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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 a TED talk on how to be more adaptable… How adaptable are you? These days, many of us struggle to adapt
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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 #133, which discusses how to write to a character count. The post first ran on March 27/20. Transcript:
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from John Vaillant…. John Vaillant is a writer and journalist who was born and raised in Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Erin MacNair has had her stories published in The Baffler, The Walrus, Prairie Fire, subTerrain and others. She’s finished writing a collection of literary, speculative fiction short stories and is working on a novel. She lives in North Vancouver. I was excited to talk to Erin about how she approaches
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If I asked you to compare your writing to an animal, is it possible you’d say you enjoy writing like a shark? When you read the headline “writing like a shark,” you might have thought I was going to talk about writing that is aggressive, relentless or fearless. Nope. Not
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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 how to name your book… Is there anything more fraught than naming your book? You’d think nothing
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