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 metaphors from Jo Hamya… Joyce Hamya is a young British novelist from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father. She graduated from King’s College London and University of Oxford […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jessica Scroggins says she’s accepted the idea that it’s okay to have a bad first draft. But to do that, she needs to overcome the desire to edit WHILE she writes…. Jessica Scroggins began screenwriting while working in film production and marketing. Her projects have won Telly Awards and have
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Reading time: About 3 minutes I used to be a night person who wrote best at 1 a.m. Even though I mysteriously turned into a morning lark 10 years ago, I’m still sympathetic to those who prefer nights. Here’s how to write if you’re a night owl… Here’s what I’d do if I were 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 how to become a more visual thinker…. I am not what you’d call a natural visual thinker.
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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 #137, which discusses how to get better at speaking. The post first ran on April 24/20. Transcript: How
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Reading time: About 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 Taffy Brodesser-Akner…. Taffy Brodesser-Akner is is an American journalist and author. She became a full-time staff writer for The New York Times in 2017 and she shot
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Christina Myers says the “one more task first” is the biggest stumbling block she faces with her writing… Christina Myers is a writer, editor, former journalist, and the author of Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife (2024, House of Anansi) and The List of Last Chances (2021, Caitlin Press) which was
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Back in the era of Mad Men, secretaries went into the offices of people like Don Draper (photo above) and took shorthand while he dictated. Now, however, you don’t need a secretary to be able to dictate…
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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 an agent… I’m a big believer in self-publishing. But if you don’t share my
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Viewing time: 4 mins 7 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 #135, which discusses how to identify your next writing steps. The post first ran on April 10/20. Transcript:
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