Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you part of the select group of people actually achieving writing goals? Or did you give up on them back in February? Every January, writers everywhere make the same promises. Finish the novel. Submit to 12 literary magazines. Build a newsletter audience. Write every […]
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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 about the editing style of Jane Austen…. When I edit on paper, I
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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 and metaphors from Olaf Olafsson…. I often enjoy the clear, crisp, unadorned style of Scandinavian writers. I was struck by that feeling again
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Writer Paul Jantzen believes that anyone who actually enjoys the editing process might have some psychological problems. For Paul, writing is the step that gives him the most joy. Paul Jantzen grew up surrounded by baseball diamonds, tree forts, and the kind of small-town adventures
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Reading time: About 3 minutes It sounds counterintuitive, but working less as a writer will actually help make you more productive… Here’s a confession that’s going to sound lazy: By noon, I’m often done with the serious work of the day. Why: I do most of my best writing 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 focussing on misguided ideas about writers… Do you imagine successful writers to be
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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 similes and metaphors from American writer Tom Junod…, Noted American magazine writer Tom Junod said that his encounter with television personality Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) changed his
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sherry Hobbs says that writing a book is not the end of the process. Instead, it’s only the beginning… The daughter of an Air Force Colonel, Sherry Hobbs spent her childhood traveling around the world, including living in Saigon, Vietnam, when her father was the
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Don’t white-knuckle your way through a first draft. Instead, learn to rehabilitate your attention. Did you know that school children are having a hard time watching movies in class? Why? Because the movies are too long. Raised on a diet of 10-second videos and their
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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 why writers should not be their own editors… I teach people how to
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