Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from Kate Atkinson… I became a fan of the English novelist Kate Atkinson many years ago when I read her 1995 Whitbread-winning book, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. I also […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Kate Vrancken as the wonderful advice that if you’re not in the mood to write, writing will change your mood. Read this interview to learn more… Kaat Vrancken is a Belgian writer of children’s books and nonfiction in Dutch. She taught creative writing for 15 years, and now she organizes
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Reading time: Just over 5 minutes When I need an immediate boost, I have a list of 21 habits or tricks I can employ to get out of the writing doldrums… I live in a city with many fine attributes: the weather is mild, the mountains are beautiful, the beaches spectacular. But for every good point,
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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 school librarians… Schools are closed for the summer in most of the northern hemisphere now,so you wonder
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 19 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 #126, which discusses what type of writing advice to follow. The post first ran on Jan. 31/20. Transcript:
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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 similes from author Matthew Walker…. I’ve had troubled sleep for as long as I can remember. I had a hard time falling asleep as a child; I had
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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 Strategies, a communications and fundraising
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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 putting on my laundry. But
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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, garbage out’? This catchy phrase
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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 the same time. The post
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