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 by Sally Rooney…. Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. I started reading her novel Normal People while standing in […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Kristi Spence strongly believes that writing is not linear. All writers have good days and bad days — and that’s the gig, she says. The writing doesn’t do itself. Kristi Spence is a mom, learner, scientist, writer, runner and philosopher. In her weekly Substack newsletter,
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you love editing but hate writing, you may simply be too judgmental for your own good. Here’s how to stop being judgy…. Some people call me opinionated. Others, judgy. Still others, determined. A few brave souls have even called me “delightfully obstinate” —
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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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Viewing time: 4 mins 22 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 #179, which addresses whether you should write on spec. The post first ran
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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 Tom Mueller… I’ve long considered myself a foodie, and when I heard there was a splendid book exposing deceit
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Reading time: About 2 minutes A.H. Kim says that having an accountability partner helps her to get her butt out of bed and into a chair every day…. A.H. (Ann) Kim is an immigrant, mother of two sons and a rescue pup, long-time cancer survivor, community volunteer, and happily retired
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you have enough grit? Take a page from the book of my husband’s cousin’s family… My family and I go up to British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast every summer to visit my husband’s fabulous cousins. We’re really close to these folks, not just because they’re
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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 an article on the question: does exercise improve creativity? I have long argued that more exercise
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Viewing time: 5 mins 7 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 #178, which addresses writing better in English. The post first ran on March
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