Reading time: Just over 4 minutes (but very skimmable) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. While my Texan friends are digging out from the snow and trying to re-establish their essential connections, I’m reminded […]
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If you need to edit a big project — and, by that, I mean a thesis or dissertation that is north of 50,000 words or a book that is 70,000 or more— DON’T freak yourself out. Editing a project of that size is by definition intimidating. But so is learning to cross a busy street, learning
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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 about how to be a writer with young kids… I went back to
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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 similes from Suleika Jaouad… Suleika Jaouad (pictured above) was just 22-years-old when she was given the grim statistic that her odds of survival
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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: hortatory… I read the Ben Lerner novel The Topeka School for three reasons. First, I’d enjoyed his earlier novel, Leaving The Atocha
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Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Do you ever despair that you’re just not creative enough? Understand that it’s not a special gift; you, too can learn to be more creative. I am friendly, quiet, highly-organized, very determined — even stubborn. I have never seen myself as the least bit creative. Nevertheless,
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Today’s post is 15-minute video on how to use the “track changes” feature in Microsoft Word. If you ever edit the work of anyone else or if you ask someone else to edit your work, I strongly encourage you to use a feature known as “track changes.” The big benefit is that it never throws
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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 for freelancers who are not making enough money…. Are you a freelance writer
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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 Gene Fowler…. Gene Fowler was always eminently quotable. My favourite line of his is: “Writing is easy. All you
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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: mullein… In addition to being a best-selling writer, Barbara Kingsolver is also a biologist. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly
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