Reading time: About 2 minutes Does your smartphone run your life? You might be the perfect candidate for a digital detox… By Ann Gomez Do you ever wish you had your own “off” button so you could power down and recharge like your phone? With our phones at our fingertips, we have a digital tether […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes The idea of giving yourself continuous small treats might sound like an indulgence. But it’s not. It’s a writing strategy…. Do you regularly reward yourself as a writer? I’m here to tell you that giving yourself treats, gifts or presents for your writing work is not only okay — it’s
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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 the power of breathing for writers… Have you ever had anyone tell you to take a deep
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 33 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 #116, which discusses how to write for research journals. The post first ran on Nov. 15/19. Transcript: Do
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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 Damian Barr… A memoir of growing up in small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years, the book Maggie & Me is practically an advertisement for
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Reading time: About 2 minutes If you let yourself get stressed out regularly, learn how to respond instead of react, to give yourself greater peace of mind… By Ann Gomez The next time you’re stuck in traffic, hands tensely wrapped around the steering wheel, stress levels rising, desperate to get where you’re going (and going
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you have writing discipline? Or does the very idea of it make you shudder? It may not be as bad as you think…. Say the word “discipline.” What does it make you think of? Going to the gym at 5 am every day? Sending a child for a time-out?
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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 on defacing books by Austin Kleon…. When I was a university student, I learned the art of defacing
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 55 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 #115, which addresses how to write around children. The post first ran on Nov. 8/19. Transcript: Can you
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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 metaphors from Sophie Mackintosh… I don’t normally read Sci Fi or fantasy because neither of these genres has never appealed to me. Yet, somehow, I found myself reading
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