Viewing time: 3 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 #222, which considers how to handle a children’s writing contest. 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 metaphors from Maria Konnikova… My reading affections are more or less equally divided between novels and non-fiction. But in the latter category, I
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jean M. Roberts says that writing is easy. She’s written 11 novels. It’s the selling that’s hard! Jean M. Roberts makes her home outside of Houston, Texas. Her experiences as a military brat, a serving Air Force officer, and wife of an Air Force pilot
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Reading time: About 3 minutes By temperament, I’m an “awfulizer” — someone who always imagines the worst possible outcome. If negative thoughts plague your writing, read on for some helpful advice… A few years ago, a client told me she’d written one sentence so clumsy she wanted to delete the
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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 the working style of Fyodor Dostoevsky…. I have not yet read any
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Viewing time: 3 mins 48 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 #221, which describes how to deal with resistance. 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 similes and metaphors from Niall Williams…. An Irish writer whose novels have received critical acclaim and widespread success, Niall Williams is known for
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Rod Baker firmly believes that rewriting is the single most important step of the writing process… The last full-time job Rod Baker held was as the executive director of a branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. While he liked the work, he hated writing
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you ever struggle with feeling scatterbrained (and who doesn’t?), here are some practical and easy tips for you. You sit down to write. You have the time, the coffee, the open document. But your brain just won’t cooperate. You read the same sentence four
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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 Guardian post on the challenges of book cover design…. Book covers — for the same book
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