Reading time: About 2 minutes Have you how learned to get and stay organized? It’s not as difficult as you might think…. By Ann Gomez Many people struggle to stay organized because they treat it as a one-off strategy. We’re eager to unpack after moving into a new home or office, spring clean the basement, […]
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Is writing perfectionism something that troubles you? Here’s a list of practical tips to help you vanquish that unruly beast… Many clients tell me they don’t write because they’re writing perfectionists. They can’t start their writing, they say, because they know it won’t be good enough. As a result, they
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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 green bean casserole…. Did you eat green bean casserole last Thanksgiving? You know, the dish made with
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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 #113, which discusses the best time to write. The post first ran on Oct. 25/19. Transcript: Do you
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a simile from Patrick Radden Keefe…. I seldom buy hard-cover books. Instead, I get them out of the library or I wait for the paperback to come out. For reasons I
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Reading time: About 2 minutes May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an important initiative to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues and raise awareness about the role mental health plays in our overall health and wellbeing. By Ann Gomez Have you heard the story of the happiness balloons? It’s a tale that made the
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Reading time: About 4 minutes When we started to downsize, I had no idea I’d get a series of writing lessons from the exercise…. My husband and I are far from being hoarders. Friends and visitors often comment on how neat and tidy our house looks. What they don’t see is all the doodads, gewgaws
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Reading time: Less than one 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 magazines that pay writers…. If you’re a freelance writer desperate to make a little more money, check
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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 #112, which gives advice on separating personal from professional writing. The post first ran on Oct. 18/19. Transcript:
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from Elizabeth McCracken…. I learned about Elizabeth McCracken’s remarkable 1996 novel The Giant’s House, via the New York Times book review podcast. (I wrote about it recently and
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