Reading time: Just over 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from Claire Lombardo…. Claire Lombardo (pictured above), is a fiction writer, teacher, and 2017 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Write Kit Daven keeps a mantra posted near her computer. It reads: By Any Means Necessary…. Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Her sci fantasy series, A Xiinisi Trilogy (The Forgotten Gemstone, The Other Castle, and The Starry
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Reading time: about 4 minutes To be a truly productive writer you need plenty of shut-eye. The absence of sleep will not only negatively affect your health, but it will also hurt your writing… Here’s how to get more sleep: I think a lot about sleep. A trip I once
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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 TED talk about how do deal with criticism of your writing… Writers are orchids, not
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 44 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 #154, which addresses whether research diaries should be assessed by teachers. The post
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Reading time: Less than 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 James McBride…. I’ve been a dedicated reader since I was six years old. But if you backed me up against a
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Reading time: About 3 minutes JF Garrard encourages authors to write because they love doing it and because they love the craft. Don’t think too much about what others have accomplished, she advises…. JF Garrard is an award-winning speculative fiction writer (The Undead Sorceress, The Blue Son, Sasaeng Waves), editor
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you want to improve your sentence structure? Here are seven types of sentences that you should eschew…. I like reading text that sounds as if the writer is speaking to me. I also like watching ice skating that looks as though it is effortless.
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Viewing time: 4 mins 44 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 #153, which asks: what’s the value of a writing model? 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 from John MacLachlan Gray…. I saw the award-winning musical Billy Bishop Goes to War — written by John MacLachlan Gray — about
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