Reading time: About 4 minutes My stick-to-itiveness is my biggest strength. That’s why I’ve been able to persist with this project so long that I’ve produced 1,000 newsletters… I calculated when I’d hit the milestone of having written 1,000 newsletters many years ago. It seemed impossibly far away. But today, […]
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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 about active and passive scenes… Writer J.D. Edwin has produced a very fine piece
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Viewing time: 4 mins 10 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 #175, which addresses how to become less anxious about publishing. 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 and similes from Burkhard Bilger…. As the mother of now-adult triplets, I spent several years deep in the trenches, feeding difficult, picky
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Melissa Sevigny says no one — apart from the writer — should be able to dictate how or when anyone can write…. Melissa L. Sevigny is a science writer and poet, living in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is author of Brave the Wild River, winner of
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Reading time: About 4 minutes You know editing is important. But do you know the five different types of editing, and how to hire the right type of editor for your book? One of the most confusing issues for new writers is that there are so many different types of
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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 discuss a blog post about bad writing habits… I am obsessed by habits. I know they make
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Viewing time: 4 mins 35 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 #174, which addresses how to make your content unique. The post first ran
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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 metaphors from Ronan Farrow…. If you want to read the best, most detailed, most downright thrilling (albeit it in a creepy way) of
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Reading time: About two minutes Thomas Harrison says that the first draft of any piece of writing is often terrible. “But it’s always easier to edit, and to polish a found diamond in the rough,” he adds. Thomas Harrison is a teacher, lawyer and creative multi-disciplinary artist who lives on
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