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 from writer Sharon Harrigan… As a mother of triplets, I have more than a passing interest in multiples. Perhaps that’s why I was drawn to the novel Half […]
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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: reliquary… The remarkable writer Meredith Hall became a published author relatively late in life. I haven’t yet read her memoir (about having become a mother at the age
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Reading time: About 4 minutes If you want to flourish as a writer, take some simple steps that will make the act of writing less painful and more fun…. As the pandemic starts to fade — in the developed world, at least — I’m noticing lots of talk about languishing and flourishing, two sides of
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As of June 1/21, I’m going to stop posting weekly articles on my Hidden Page and switch instead to posting several days a week on the Mighty Networks chat group. This new system will give you more frequent access to issues related to writing that I’ve been thinking about. And it will also continue my
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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 blog post about the value of getting enough slack time… Many people who are self-employed believe work should involve no slack
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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 from Michael Lewis…. Many readers know Michael Lewis (pictured above) from his ultra-successful book The Big Short, about the 2008 financial crisis. (It was turned into an equally
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Reading time: Not quite a 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: slaked…. I have always associated the word slake or slaked with thirst. But when I recently encountered it in a recent and highly engaging book by Michael
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Reading time: About 5 mins (faster if scanning) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and entertaining pieces for writers. With rates of COVID vaccination increasing, those of us in the developed world may be able to enjoy something approaching a more “normal” summer this
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Bridges, connectors or transitions are the words, phrases and stylistic devices that help direct readers through our writing. Sometimes I even like to imagine them as cables that pull our readers along, or hidden invisible stitches that help knit our whole piece of writing together. As an editor with more than 40 years of experience, I can often
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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 tackle the question of whether we’re all too busy to write…. Are you struggling with chronic overload that leaves you too busy to
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