Reading time: About 2 minutes Laura Gale embraces the message “kill your darlings,” because she knows favourite phrases are often unclear or overdone… Laura Gale started her career as a publicist at a global publishing house, promoting books by Nelson Mandela, Tina Fey, J. K. Rowling and many more. She […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’re planning on writing through the holidays, here are some tips to make the work easier on yourself… Many of my friends and clients fret about writing over the holidays. Should they take time off or should they continue writing? I pass no judgement
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to write if you have ADHD… I have worked with lots of writers with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD)
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 53 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 #114, which describes how to write for skimmers. The post first ran on
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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 Elizabeth Gilbert…. I know that Elizabeth Gilbert — author of Eat, Pray, Love — isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Bill Arnott likes to inspire himself with a quote from Australian novelist Tim Winton, who advised: “Watch, listen, remember, wonder, and READ.” Bill Arnott is the BC Book Prize bestselling author of A Perfect Day for a Walk, A Perfect Day for a Walk by the
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Are you ready for the holidays? Use the month of December to relax a little, to declare your priorities and to make a vigorous plan for the next year…. If you’d like to write without getting lost down the research rabbit hole, this is a
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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 why it’s important not to overwork…. When I was a newspaper editor,
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Viewing time: 4 mins 3 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 #196, which describes how to maintain your enthusiasm for editing. The post first
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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 by Rebecca Mead…. A writer for the New Yorker, Rebecca Mead joined the magazine as a staffer in 1997 and
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