Reading time: About 3 minutes Writer Nate Birt says he asks himself “what’s the most ridiculous thing I can come up with today?” when his fiction writing gets jammed up. Read this interview to learn the other strategies he uses… Nate Birt is a writer and founder of Silver Maple […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If writing always feels like the LAST thing you want to do, it may be time to change your attitude about writing. Here’s how to do that…. I used a writing trick to help me with the laundry recently. Every Saturday morning, I think about
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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 address the question, ‘what do you put in your mind?’ Do you know the expression, ‘garbage in,
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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 #125, which discusses how to manage writing a newsletter and a book at
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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 series of similes from Vinson Cunningham… Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theatre critic at The New Yorker and is currently a teacher in
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 31 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question looks at how to juggle tasks related to book writing. If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you know how to finish the writing you start? Being a good finisher is an entirely separate task from being a good writer… I recently returned from a glorious two-week holiday on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island. We’ve been going to the same cottage
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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 how to find your writing problems before editing… Have you ever given
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 15 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 #124, which discusses how to set up a literary cafe. The post first
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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 American writer Patricia Hampl…. The book was lying on my bedside table, and my husband happened to glance at it. “What a
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