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 a blog post on surviving conferences by Jenn Walton…. I am an introvert. A socially-skilled introvert, but […]
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 59 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 #105, which gives advice on how to read more books. The post first
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Reading time: Less than 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 Irish novelist John Boyne… I read a John Boyne novel about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland a little
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Certain pursuits and professions attract introverts. Writing is one of them. If you’ve found your loneliness increasing over the last several months, take some steps now to turn it around…. By Ann Gomez For many, the pandemic shone a light on a different epidemic: loneliness.
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Some tasks — like writing — can be hard to do. That’s why it’s important for you to start feeling comfortable with discomfort… Does the act of writing ever make you feel uncomfortable? Perhaps it bores you just a little. Maybe it makes you feel
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Reading time: About 3 minutes 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 handle acronyms and initialisms… One of my pet peeves is seeing
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 45 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 #104, which discusses how to handle competing creative interests. The post first ran
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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 author Susan Orlean…. I have visited Southern California many times, on perhaps as many as a dozen different trips. But I have
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Reading time: about 2 minutes If you want to achieve more with your writing, consider the power of using habits than results to increase your odds success… By Ann Gomez Have you ever done a challenging hike where you’ve had to scramble over fallen trees or rocky slopes? It’s so
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Writing can be difficult work. But you can make it more palatable if you always start with the easy stuff first… An arresting — and amusing — argument rages in the productivity community. It’s all about how we should tackle our work — whether writing
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