Reading time: About 3 minutes Ed Gandia likes to use mindmapping to keep himself creative during the writing process. Read this interview to learn the other strategies he employs…. Ed Gandia is a business-building coach who works to help established freelance writers and copywriters earn more in less time. His High-Income Business Writing podcast is […]
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Reading time: About 5 minutes Boredom is the bane of many readers. For this reason, it’s worth spending time to make your writing less boring… Have you ever felt the need to stifle a yawn after reading something you’ve written? “Oh boy,” you said to yourself. “That sure wasn’t very interesting….” The German word for
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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 by Dan Bevacqua….. Writer Dan Bevacqua (pictured above), had me at the headline: “What Happens When You Treat
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 17 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 #122, which discusses how to find a good plagiarism checker. The post first ran on Jan. 3/20. 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 similes and metaphors from Merilyn Simonds…. I became an instant fan of Canadian writer Merilyn Simonds (pictured above), about 20 years ago when I read her breathtaking creative
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Emily Agnew says that using a timer is an essential part of her writing habit. Read this interview to learn the other strategies she employs…. Emily Agnew is a life coach for creative, sensitive people who suffer from anxiety, overwhelm, and self-doubt. She provides customized one-on-one intensives to clients around
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Are you so busy that you tell yourself you can’t possibly squeeze anything else into your day? Here’s how to make more time for writing…. Many people tell me they don’t have the time to write. Almost always, they’re wrong, and I try to deliver that news kindly and with
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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 about getting paid what you’re worth…. Are you underpaid and overworked as a writer? Soness Stevens (pictured above)
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 27 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 #121, which discusses how to deal with a new book idea (when you’re already writing a different one).
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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 simlies from Anne Enright…. Anne Enright is an Irish writer and the first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018). She has published seven novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction
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