Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you think your writing would improve if only you could become more creative? Here are seven ways to boost your creativity…. We’ve never had pets in our household. Although I’d dearly love a cat, my husband is highly allergic to animal dander — and the thought […]
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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 a blog post about the writing habits of Daniel Levitin… Like many writers, I love reading
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Viewing time: 5 mins 42 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 #163, which addresses how to deal with perfectionism in writing. The post first
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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 Rachel Kushner…. Rachel Kushner is an American writer, currently living in Los Angeles. Her fourth and most recent novel (2024), Creation Lake, was
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jasmine Ruff says that writers shouldn’t fixate on form. She says she’s seen mediocre fiction writers become brilliant poets and vice versa…. Jasmine Ruff is a queer writer living in Vancouver — the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Here is a long list of hacks to help you increase your writing motivation so that it really supports you…. Have you heard of the national competition that challenges people to write a novel in 30 days, NaNoWriMo? I haven’t participated. But I have written
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Reading time: About 1 minute 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 wake up time… I have been a morning lark for the last 20 years. This means I
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Viewing time: 5 mins 3 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 #162, which describes how to write sentences with more impact. The post first ran
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from David Szalay…. The writer David Szalay was born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. (His surname is
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Reading time: About two minutes Sue Dvorak says that talking about writing is usually a mistake. Instead, it just burns up the drive you’ve had to do it… Sue Dvorak is a physiotherapist and a mother of six now-adult children. She dabbled in writing on and off over the years,
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