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: menhir… Most of us have vocabularies that are highly specific. They often reveal the places in which we live. Circular intersections were …
Reading time: About 4 minutes If you’ve ever thought of pursuing a freelance writing career, learn the steps you need to take to make yourself a more successful freelancer. I was 25 years old when I sold my first article to a national magazine. It took me about three years …
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I’ve been working on the video below for months now, trying to synch it with a PowerPoint slide deck about mindmapping that I spent many hours creating. The first four times I tried to do it, the recording didn’t work. Last week, I decided to try again and I discovered …
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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 posts to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to shorten copy that’s too long….. Do you habitually write too …
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Viewing time: 4 mins 28 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? How can you find more time to write? If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me …
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Reading time: Less than 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 Stefan Hertmans…. Someone — I don’t remember who — told me about the novel The Convert, by Stefan Hertmans. They must …
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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: aureate… Reading the book Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar has been a vocabulary-building exercise for me. Last week I learned the word …
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Reading time: About 6 minutes (but easily scannable) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. It’s pumpkin season here in North America, with shortening days, cooler temperatures and more rain. As my husband and I …
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I have a friend who used to set the most wildly ambitious goals for herself. Whenever she did this, I’d mildly observe that perhaps she’d be better off choosing more realistic objectives. Her response? She said something like, “I just like to give myself something really challenging to aim for. …
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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 how to fact check your own writing…. When I worked in daily …
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