Reading time: About 3 minutes You probably already know to write in active rather than passive voice. But did you also know that an active mindset is better than a passive one? I grew up in a troubled household. We were a family of seven, and I was the eldest […]
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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 how to improve your home office setting… As a result of the Covid
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 40 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #138, which discusses where to keep your research diary. The post first ran
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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 metaphors from Jo Hamya… Joyce Hamya is a young British novelist from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father. She graduated
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jessica Scroggins says she’s accepted the idea that it’s okay to have a bad first draft. But to do that, she needs to overcome the desire to edit WHILE she writes…. Jessica Scroggins began screenwriting while working in film production and marketing. Her projects have
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Reading time: About 3 minutes I used to be a night person who wrote best at 1 a.m. Even though I mysteriously turned into a morning lark 10 years ago, I’m still sympathetic to those who prefer nights. Here’s how to write if you’re a night owl… Here’s what I’d
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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 become a more visual thinker…. I am not what you’d
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 29 secs. The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #137, which discusses how to get better at speaking. The post first ran
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Taffy Brodesser-Akner…. Taffy Brodesser-Akner is is an American journalist and author. She became a full-time staff writer for The New York Times
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Christina Myers says the “one more task first” is the biggest stumbling block she faces with her writing… Christina Myers is a writer, editor, former journalist, and the author of Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife (2024, House of Anansi) and The List of Last Chances
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