Viewing time: 3 mins. 51 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 #26, describing what the word stet actually means. 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 some similes and metaphors from Australian writer Geraldine Brooks…. Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Australia but who now lives in the
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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: epiphanic… When I recently learned the meaning of the word epiphanic, I slapped myself over the head for not having figured it out
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Reading time: About 4 minutes If you want to write a book be sure to avoid these seven toxic book-writing strategies, because they’ll just gum you up. When I was a child, I was a pack rat. I saved every toy, game, book, piece of paper and photograph. So, my
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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 a blog post on becoming a better reader. Clients often ask me how they can become better
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Viewing time: 4 minutes and 1 second 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 #25, describing what you can do with your old writing. The post
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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 a series of metaphors from Louis Bayard… Writer Louis Bayard seems to have a keen interest in the love lives of American presidents. His 2019 book, Courting
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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: dovecote…. When I read the word dovecote in John LeCarré’s memoir Pigeon Tunnel, I had no idea how appropriate it was. Here
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes If you’ve ever spent a weekend afternoon making pickles, you might understand the similarities the task has with writing… I’m a pretty serious cook. In fact, I managed to turn my three kids into picky little foodies by the age of three. (I tried
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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 a blog post about how to make your content scannable… I read about 80 blogs a week.
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