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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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 the top of your mind
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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 article for a trade magazine.
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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 ran on June 22/18. Transcript:
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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 Hamnet, based on the life
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