Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you usually try to hide your mistakes? Or have you had the opportunity to learn why mistakes are good? I’ll never forget a mistake I made early in my career as a journalist. I was 24 years old and running a community newspaper. A […]
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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 post about guest posting…. When I started blogging more than 15 years ago, I had 34
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Viewing time: 3 minutes and 32 seconds How to break procrastinating habits? 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 the issue #5, about how to stop procrastinating, which
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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 Virginia Feito… I can no longer remember who recommended the first novel of Virginia Feito to me. Raised in Madrid and Paris,
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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: epicanthic… Even though there is a doctor in my family, my understanding of medical terminology is weak. (I was always a word
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you using too many words — deliberately? It’s a bad habit and you’ll be a much more successful writer if you deal with it now… Are you the type of person who deliberately writes more words than you need? I’m not talking about people
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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 find better comps… If you’ve never written a book, or never
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Viewing time: 4 minutes and 5 seconds 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 the fourth issue, on lack of confidence, which ran on Feb. 10/17. 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 metaphors from Sarah Ruhl…. Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. I can’t remember what led me to pick up her memoir, Smile:
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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: androgynous… I think just about everyone knows the term, androgynous means, “partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex.” The photo
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