Reading time: about 2 minutes What interferes with writing for Ann Gomez is her OTHER work! Read this interview to learn how Ann copes with this conundrum…. Ann Gomez is the founder and president Clear Concept Inc., a training organization for productivity, collaboration, mindset and wellbeing. Ann was also the productivity columnist for this blog […]
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you ever worry about it being “too late” for you to write? Perhaps surprisingly, there are many benefits to being an older writer… I am in my 60s. Old enough to understand acutely that my time is being whittled away by both age and gravity. But here’s the good
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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 writer envy…. I worked in a newsroom for six years and, trust me, I know insecurity. We
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 10 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 #120, which discusses how many words you should write each day. The post first ran on Dec. 13/19.
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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 from American author Susan Choi…. I don’t usually buy books as a result of advertisements, but when my favourite book podcast, the New York Times’ Book Review
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sure, we all want to be winners, but do you understand why losing is never really losing? By Ann Gomez Whether or not you’re a basketball fan, it’s worth paying close attention to how Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks answered a question about failure after his team was eliminated
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Reading time: About 4 minutes People often ask me about the best software for writing. Instead, I tell them, they should worry about how to protect their eyes…. After spending 10 days in southern California some years ago, I noticed my eyes had become uncomfortably dry and itchy. And, of course, the plane trip home
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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 the late Jim Lehrer…. I grew up in journalism. My parents owned a struggling weekly newspaper, and I worked there, part
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 52 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 #119, which discusses the pros and cons of writing classes. The post first ran on Dec. 6/19. 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 Lee Israel…. The movie about literary forger Lee Israel grabbed my attention as soon as I heard the plot. It also didn’t hurt that the star
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