Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a simile from David Leavitt. I read my first David Leavitt novel, The Lost Language of Cranes, more than 20 years ago and I can still remember […]
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: ineluctably. As a longtime fan of the book The War of Art, I was delighted to discover that author Steven Pressfield has
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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 an article written for the New York Times by Danny Heitman… The debate over ‘writing short’ versus
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Reading time: About 1.5 minutes Are you someone who has a hard time with deadlines? Here’s an example of how a fake deadline can help… Many people have difficulty with deadlines. They do high-reward tasks, first, (such as answering their email) and procrastinate on the important but difficult-to-do jobs (such
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a metaphor from author Elizabeth Bard. I was standing at the public library, idly flipping through books on the shelves when my fingers exerted their willpower and
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Please don’t think me a zealot but today I’m going to tell you why writers should meditate… You may wonder why, shortly after waking up every morning, I head upstairs to my office and lie down on the floor and cover myself with a blanket. You’d think, after seven
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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 an article written by Charlie Brooker… I hadn’t heard of Charlie Brooker until I received an email
Reading time: About 1.5 minutes If you’re looking to build a new website, here’s a radical idea: build a blog, instead. Even if you don’t want to blog! Here’s why…. Does your company or organization require a new website? Here’s why you should think about a WordPress blog instead. 1) Blogs
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a metaphor from Lauren Collins. My husband is the tennis fan in our family. I didn’t even know the name Novak Djokovic until I read Lauren Collins’
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Reading time: About 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: bardo. I read the novel The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt while on holiday last month. All 771 pages of it. It wasn’t the
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