Reading time: About 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 helpful blog post about writing interruptions… I take it for granted that I’m going to face […]
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Viewing time: 4 mins 11 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? How you can get the most help from beta readers? If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message
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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 from Celeste Ng…. I was gobsmacked by the first novel, Everything I Never Told You written by Celeste Ng. The story of
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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: fulminating…. When I read the novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, I didn’t expect to find my word of the
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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 typographical manual that can be found on Project Gutenberg… I learned to type on a
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Viewing time: 4 mins 10 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? How you can make your writing less ‘blah’? 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 some similes and metaphors from John Green…. I first heard about John Green (pictured above) about eight years ago, when my kids were still teenagers. He
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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: inchoate…. I’ve long held a particular fondness for the adjective inchoate. Perhaps it’s the idiosyncratic pronunciation that charms me — the CH sound
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Perhaps your writing — or writing practice — seems inadequate to you? Here are some ideas about how to get from where you are to where you want to be…. I was almost 30 years old when I first visited the UK. To this day,
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes 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 advocating using fiction techniques in memoir… I recently stumbled across a terrific blog
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