Reading time: About 3 minutes Writer burnout doesn’t respond to rest. Learn what really causes it and the research-backed habits that help you recover for good… I burned out once. In those days, I ran a struggling weekly newspaper, owned by my father, and it was a stress +++ job.
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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 by Chris Bailey…. I’m a longtime fan of productivity expert Chris Bailey (pictured
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Viewing time: 59 seconds How to focus your writing: find the one idea your draft is really about, then cut every line that doesn’t serve it. One idea wins. Transcript Many drafts sprawl because the writer is trying to say everything at once. Here’s the fix. Ask yourself one question
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes and metaphors from writer Caity Weaver… A digitally restored edition of the 1987 box-office winning film Moonstruck, starring Cher, pictured above, was
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Reading time: About 2 minutes An unrepentant “binge writer,” Ruth F. Stevens sometimes has to force herself to take breaks when she’s deeply embroiled in a writing project… Ruth F. Stevens is author of the award-winning South Bay Series, My Year of Casual Acquaintances and The Unexpected Guests. She is
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Wondering why reading matters? Guilt and discipline won’t get you reading. Pleasure will. Six ways to make books fun again… My son is severely dyslexic, and he struggled mightily with reading as a child. We could see he was incredibly intelligent, and we used every
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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 by Derek Sivers on the upside of self-employment… I have been my own
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Viewing time: 59 seconds Should you count words or time? Word count goals set you up to fail. Set a 10-minute timer instead, and the words will follow. Transcript If you set a word count goal, you may sabotage yourself. Here is the problem. You cannot control how many words
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Reading time: Just over 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 novelist Yaa Gyasi… Although she was born only in 1989, Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist who already has an armful
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Reading time: About 2 minutes The hard part of writing for Gail Ward Olmsted is not the writing! Instead, it’s all the marketing activities — and she started her working life as a marketer… Gail Ward Olmsted was a marketing executive and a college professor before she began writing fiction
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