Reading time: About 2 minutes Do you frequently tell yourself you’re “too busy”? If so, today’s message describes how your mindset can boost your productivity this year, maybe even dramatically. By Ann Gomex While working in my first job after university, I received a valuable piece of advice from one […]
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Reading time: About 5 minutes Writing is always going to be harder after a holiday. But taking a break isn’t a mistake! Here’s how to get back into writing after a break… Did you eat too many chocolate-dipped shortbreads this Christmas? Drink lots of glasses of eggnog or mulled wine?
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There’s no Power Writing from me today as I’m taking some time off this week to celebrate Christmas and the new year. I hope you get a break, too, and I’ll be back in time for next week’s post, January 2nd. Happy New Year!
Viewing time: 5 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 #91, which addresses how to write a personal statement. The post first ran
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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 images from American novelist Andrew Sean Greer…. One of the top five books I read in 2018 was the Pulitzer-Prize-winning comic novel Less,
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you fear you’ve ever been somewhat dysfunctional about Christmas? Here’s how writers can retain the holiday spirit… The ghosts of Christmases past still haunt me. There was the frustrating Christmas when my family’s struggling weekly newspaper had its typesetting machine break down just before
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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 written by Ann Handley… Ann Handley (pictured above), is a writer, digital marketer,
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 29 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 #90, which addresses how to deal with unwanted questions about your dissertation. The
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Reading time: Just over 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from Patricia Lockwood… Did you know that if a male minister from another religion converts to Catholicism, being married is
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Have you discovered the incredible power of small wins? If not, be sure to learn more about this way to super-charge your writing practice… By Ann Gomez For as long as I can remember, I envisioned becoming a prolific author. But I could never seem
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