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 Mark Haddon…. When I read the remarkable 2003 book The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time — …
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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: nictitating… My reading last week once again proved the limits of a liberal-arts-oriented education. I encountered the fascinating word nictitating in the …
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Reading time: 11 minutes (but easily skimmable) When I was a child I learned that I could make time pass more quickly by reading. Here are more than 52 novels to read during the pandemic… I’ve kept a book diary for the last 25 years. The list comes in handy …
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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 blog post about how to find your writing problems before editing… Have you ever given …
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 25 secs. The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question looks at how to write to set character count.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 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 Kristen Arnett… When I heard that the main character in a first novel by Kristen Arnett (pictured above) was …
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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: spraddling…. Something about the pandemic is causing me to read more murder mysteries than usual. I’m not sure why except perhaps that …
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Reading time: Just over 6 minutes Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. We live in the time of coronavirus, worried about the world’s health, scared about our financial security and bored from being stuck …
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Have you ever struggled with a Committee of A**holes? 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…. My longtime friend Eve Johnson is a writer, a yoga-instructor …
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 29 secs. The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question looks at how to figure out whether it’s safe to enter a writing contest. If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, …
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