Reading time: About 4 minutes Writing is work, true, but to help yourself be more successful at it, you need to learn how to make writing more fun…. If you love playing tennis, do you procrastinate when a friend asks if you want to play a game? If you adore […]
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post offering mind tips for creatives… Eric Maisel is an American psychotherapist, teacher, and creativity coach who grew up in Brooklyn.
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 48 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 #97, which addresses how to tell stories in science writing. The post first
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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 Jessica Winter… An editor at The New Yorker, where she also writes about family and education, Jessica Winter is the author of
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Last week’s productive writing post focused on how to stop procrastinating. Today, you can pick up even more tips for dealing with this determined beast… By Ann Gomez Procrastination comes at a cost. It lowers our work quality, increases our stress, and strains our relationships.
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Does your self-critical voice work to shut down your writing? If so, here are five useful tips on how to silence your inner editor while you’re trying to write… Begin by understanding that we all talk to ourselves. And most of what we say is
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to make your writing sparkle… If you want to make your writing sparkle, start avoiding so-called
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 6 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 #96, which addresses how to stop interruptions to your writing. The post first
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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 Sigrid Nunez…. Sigrid Nunez, pictured above, was only a moderately successful American fiction writer until she won the 2018 US National Book
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Reading time: About 2 minutes If you postpone your writing endlessly, here’s my advice on how you can stop procrastinating… By Ann Gomez Are you a procrastinator? Maybe you’re even reading this instead of doing a certain task. If so, no judgment here. We all procrastinate (me included). Technically, research
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