Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Do you know how to work when you don’t feel like it? These seven tricks can help you survive the hottest summer…. Compared to the rest of the year, my phone rings half as often in the summer and my email takes a dip …
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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 TED Talk about how to get your body ready for writing…. Many of my clients …
Viewing time: 6 mins. 56 secs Want to become a better interviewer? The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me at daphne@publicationcoach.com, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me at the …
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 similes from John von Sothen…. I will never buy a book because it has a pretty or interesting or compelling cover. But I …
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: mesallinace…. Craig Brown’s book, Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, is enormous fun, even for people who aren’t fans of the royals. A kind …
Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Many of us spend huge chunks of our days writing email. If this is one of your jobs, here’s how to write better email…. Did you know that more than half of the people who receive email cite it as a source of workplace …
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 tip from consultant Emily Agnew… When my friend and colleague Emily Agnew gave me a …
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 52 secs. The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question addresses how to evaluate a publishing contract. If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me at daphne@publicationcoach.com, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me …
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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 American writer Mary Grimm…. I’d never before read any of the work of Mary Grimm, pictured above, a professor of English …
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: uxorious…. When I encountered the word uxorious in Patricia Hampl’s very fine non-fiction book The Art of the Wasted Day, I had …
