Reading time: About 6 minutes (but easy to scan much faster) I offer this post on how to kill your productivity because we often learn best by learning the opposite of what we want to do… I write about productivity a lot because time is the most valuable element we all have. It’s worth more than money — […]
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Reading time: Just over 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 ask the important question: have you met your rejection quota yet? Most people think of rejection as an entirely undesirable occurrence. A nasty fact of life
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Viewing time: 3 min. 48 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 #61, with advice about how to create a book launch team. The post first ran on July 20/18.
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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 metaphors from Elizabeth Strout… Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is one of the best, most skillful fiction writers alive in the US today. Born in Portland, Maine, and raised in small towns
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Reading time: Just over 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: skerry…. An award-winning poet and storyteller, Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland. He writes about life in Newfoundland with
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Could you turn your writing side hustle into an actual job? Yes, you can. Read on to learn how… I wrote my first national magazine piece as a 27-year-old. They paid me so much I could have bought a car in cash the next day. Of course, it would have
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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 that will help you answer the question, would you benefit from napping? I have never seen myself as a napper. I may be
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Viewing time: 4 min. 6 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 #60, with advice about better self-management for writers. The post first ran on June 29/18. Transcript: Welcome to
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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 similes from the American writer Ann Napolitano… I’d heard all the buzz about a new novel by Ann Napolitano. Rave reviews. Selection by the Oprah book club. A feature
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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: loden…. I’m pretty good at guessing the meaning of words, probably as a result of my year of Latin in high school and my many years of
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