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 from Vicki Laveau-Havie…. Family trauma doesn’t sound like a happy theme for a memoir but in the hands of Vicki Laveau-Harvie, the […]
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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: skep…. As a fan of the writer Maggie O’Farrell, I was excited to learn she had a new novel published this year.
Reading time: Less than 6 minutes (and easy to scan) Are you stressed and worn out — too tired to write another word? It might be time to consider indulging in some self-care for writers…. The phrase “self-care” has always sounded slightly suspect to me. It makes me think of
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Viewing time: 32 mins 54 secs Here is the original text of a chapter for a business book for which I did a substantive edit in the video shown above. Even if you don’t watch the video, I suggest you scroll to the end of this post to read my concluding notes. You might also
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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 figurative language from Olaf Olafsson…. The Icelandic writer Olaf Olafsson has been a recent discovery of mine thanks to a New York Times review of his very
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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: frangible…. I found the Alison Wearing memoir, Moments of Glad Grace to be exceptionally easy to read. Featuring mostly short sentences, plenty
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Reading time: About 4 minutes In a panic over Christmas gifts for writers in your life? (Or wondering what to ask for, yourself?) Here’s a whole list of ideas, most of them reasonably priced. Christmas is approaching and the panicked buying is about to begin. If you are purchasing a
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Viewing time: 31 mins 47 secs Here is the original text of blog post for which I did a substantive edit in the video shown above. Even if you don’t watch the video, I suggest you scroll to the end of this post to read my concluding notes. You might also wish to download the
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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 metaphors and similes from Alison Wearing…. An award-winning Canadian writer, playwright and performer, Alison Wearing (pictured above) knows her way around memoir. I
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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: etiolated…. I encounter a word, every once in a while, that I’m sure I must know. It sounds familiar and yet, when I
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