Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors from Sigrid Nunez… Sigrid Nunez is a talented American author who won the 2018 US National Book Award for Fiction for her seventh novel, The Friend, a book I devoured last year. […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jen Frankel says the Oscar Wilde quote, “It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating,” helps keep her grounded as a writer. Jen Frankel is the author of the vegan zombie romantic satire Undead Redhead and the Blood & Magic series. Her work has appeared in anthologies
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you ever find yourself writing through uncertainty, you’ll likely feel uncomfortable. But, instead, thank your lucky stars you have a chance to write this way… I met with a client just last week who was stuck in the messy middle of his book. He’d been wrestling with it for
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and posts to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to shorten copy that’s too long….. Do you habitually write too long? My problem is usually
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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 #158, which addresses the best way to paraphrase. The post first ran on Oct. 9/20. Transcript: What is
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Reading time: About one minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about the metaphors of Liz Moore…. Liz Moore is an American author and an Associate Professor of English at Temple University, where she serves as the Creative Writing Director. After a brief time
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Cid V Brunet says it’s always important to have time away from my desk to let the writing simmer on the back-burner…. Cid V Brunet published their debut memoir, This Is My Real Name, with Arsenal Pulp Press in 2021. With recent poetry publications in CV2 and Eavesdrop magazine, they
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you ever indulge in panic editing? Here’s why you shouldn’t and how to beat down the impulse… We’ve all been there. Our deadline is mere hours away, and we haven’t finished editing our writing project. Maybe we became lost in the research cycle. Perhaps we spent too much time
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Reading time: Just over 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 fact check your own writing…. When I worked in daily newspapers 30 years ago (when
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Viewing time: 4 mins 24 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 #157, which addresses how to find a thesis statement. The post first ran on Oct. 2/20. Transcript:
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