Viewing time: 5 mins. 31 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question looks at how to juggle tasks related to book writing. If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me at the Skype account, […]
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you know how to finish the writing you start? Being a good finisher is an entirely separate task from being a good writer… I recently returned from a glorious two-week holiday on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island. We’ve been going to the same cottage (pictured here) for about 10
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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 find your writing problems before editing… Have you ever given a draft of your writing
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 15 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 #124, which discusses how to set up a literary cafe. The post first ran on Jan. 10/20. Transcript:
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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 American writer Patricia Hampl…. The book was lying on my bedside table, and my husband happened to glance at it. “What a great title!” he said. The
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Reading time: About 1 minute Nicholas Read likes to remind writers that words on a page — any words — are always better than a blank page…. Nicholas Read is a former journalist and journalism instructor and a passionate defender of animal rights. Now retired, he still writes the occasional column for the Vancouver Sun
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Which is better: typing or writing with a pen? The best tool for writing may surprise you…. Is it better to write on your keyboard or with a pen? Clients ask me this question every week, and I always give the same answer: It depends. And this apparent non-answer is
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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 blog post about how much money writers earn…. The photo at the top of this post — juxtaposed with a
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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 #123, which discusses how to switch from journaling to toher types of writing. The post first ran on
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Caitlin Moran… The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism calls Caitlin Moran (pictured above) the most influential British journalist on Twitter. Although this
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