Reading time: About 2 minutes Jen Frankel says the Oscar Wilde quote, “It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating,” helps keep her grounded as a writer. Jen Frankel is the author of the vegan zombie romantic satire Undead Redhead and the Blood & Magic series. Her […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If you ever find yourself writing through uncertainty, you’ll likely feel uncomfortable. But, instead, thank your lucky stars you have a chance to write this way… I met with a client just last week who was stuck in the messy middle of his book. He’d
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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 posts to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about how to shorten copy that’s too long….. Do you habitually write too
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Viewing time: 4 mins 29 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 #158, which addresses the best way to paraphrase. The post first ran on
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Reading time: About one minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about the metaphors of Liz Moore…. Liz Moore is an American author and an Associate Professor of English at Temple University, where she serves as the Creative Writing
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Cid V Brunet says it’s always important to have time away from my desk to let the writing simmer on the back-burner…. Cid V Brunet published their debut memoir, This Is My Real Name, with Arsenal Pulp Press in 2021. With recent poetry publications in
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you ever indulge in panic editing? Here’s why you shouldn’t and how to beat down the impulse… We’ve all been there. Our deadline is mere hours away, and we haven’t finished editing our writing project. Maybe we became lost in the research cycle. Perhaps
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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 how to fact check your own writing…. When I worked in daily
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Viewing time: 4 mins 24 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 #157, which addresses how to find a thesis statement. 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 similes from Michael Crummey… I’m not a fan of the way celebrated Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey plots his novels. Still, I really like
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