Viewing time: 4 mins 48 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? Should writing generate emotion? If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me at the Skype account, …
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from Meredith Hall… I had never before heard of author Meredith Hall, a writer and professor emeritus at the University …
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Reading time: About 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: shillelagh…. As soon as I read the exotic-looking word, shillelagh, I knew I had heard it before. I just couldn’t put my finger …
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Reading time: Fewer than 3 minutes Do you allow yourself enough thinking time? Surprisingly, many writers don’t…. How much time do you spend thinking? Not worrying. Not writing. Not organizing. Just thinking. Smart guy George Bernard Shaw said, “few people think more than two or three times a year.” Then …
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Having backups of your writing is incredibly important. Many years ago, I heard a radio interview with a fiction author. I’m sorry I can’t remember her name, but I will never forget her story. Just before she was about to turn in a manuscript to her publisher, her house burned …
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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 what makes a good foreword… Barbara Oakley — professor of engineering at …
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Viewing time: 3 mins 43 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? How do you figure out what to write about? If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for …
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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 and metaphors from Raven Leilani… A 2020 debut novel by writer Raven Leilani, Luster, received significant attention at its publishing. It earned praise …
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Reading time: About one 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: embrassure… While I’m as interested in castles as the next person, I’ve never made a study of the architecture of such buildings. Perhaps …
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Reading time: Fewer than 3 minutes Our perception of how we’re doing — whether in writing or something else — can sometimes be wrong. This error is known as progress bias…. I spent 30 minutes yesterday doing my least-favourite task in the entire world: rounding up and categorizing invoices and …
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