Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you tired of working all the time, with never a break in sight? It’s time for you to work less and live more… Are you working too much? Many writers do. So do many self-employed people. So do many ambitious people. It’s work, work, […]
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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 to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss building your writing habit via automation…. Do you have a habit that encourages you to write?
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Viewing time: 3 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 #30, describing how to spend less time rewriting. The post first ran on
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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 similes and metaphors from novelist Monica Ali… Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. In 2003, she was selected as one of the “Best
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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: auscultation… Many friends and colleagues had recommended the 2011 novel The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht to me but I never picked
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you ever filled with regret after reading what you’ve written? I bet you’re suffering from a case of writer’s remorse…. When my husband and I bought our house some 30 years ago, we were unspeakably excited. We’d spent eight months looking — had toured
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Reading time: About 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 writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut… I must begin with a confession: I have never read a single
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 48 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 #29, describing reverse engineering for writers. The post first ran on Aug. 25/17.
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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 similes from the journalist Carl Bernstein…. The American investigative journalist and author Carl Bernstein was a hero when I was growing up. When he was a young
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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: rime… I had never read anything written by the darkly comic Danish author Dorothe Nors. But when her 2017 novel Mirror, Shoulder,
