Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: loden…. I’m pretty good at guessing the meaning of words, probably as a result of my year of Latin in high school […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’ve never tried expressive writing, this post-pandemic milieu may provide the perfect time for you… Readers and clients often ask me if I believe in “free writing”. In case you’ve never heard the term, it refers to writing about anything — whatever is at
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Reading time: About 2 minutes This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about the value of copyright… When I started my online business some 25 years ago, I wrote an
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Viewing time: 3 min. 58 sec. 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 #59, with advice about how to be a better editor. The post first
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors and personification from Maggie O’Farrell… I’ve been a longtime fan of the Maggie O’Farrell, the award-winning Irish novelist who now lives in Edinbourgh. Her luminous novel
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: loge…. When I read the very amusing book The White Angel by John MacLachlan Gray, I encountered a word that was new
Reading time: About 5 minutes Many people tell me they WANT to write every day, or they have an ambitious daily word count goal, but they just can’t manage to achieve it. Here’s how you can write every day without procrastination…. Have you struggled to establish a sustainable daily writing
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about the benefits of promoting yourself before you’re ready… I help many different types of author, and one
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Viewing time: 4 min. 37 sec. 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 #58, with advice about making video for a website. The post first ran
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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 images from Canadian writer Zoe Whittall… Canadian poet, novelist and TV writer Zoe Whittall understands how to create an interesting and compelling plot. Her
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