Reading time: About 2 minutes If you’re having difficulty writing, it might be time for you to make sleep a top priority… By Ann Gomez Do you view sleep as a luxury? Or something that gets bumped when other important activities are vying for your attention? Whenever I catch myself being cavalier about my sleep habits, […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes A broken treadmill doesn’t help anyone. But fixing that treadmill can teach you a useful lesson for later in your writing life… My favourite piece of writing equipment is not a special pen or notebook or even keyboard. It’s my treadmill desk. I get 20,000 steps most workdays (that’s almost
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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 on surviving conferences by Jenn Walton…. I am an introvert. A socially-skilled introvert, but an introvert nonetheless. For this
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 59 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 #105, which gives advice on how to read more books. The post first ran on Aug. 30/19. Transcript:
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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 Irish novelist John Boyne… I read a John Boyne novel about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland a little reluctantly. It’s such a sad,
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Certain pursuits and professions attract introverts. Writing is one of them. If you’ve found your loneliness increasing over the last several months, take some steps now to turn it around…. By Ann Gomez For many, the pandemic shone a light on a different epidemic: loneliness. A 2021 Harvard study revealed
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Some tasks — like writing — can be hard to do. That’s why it’s important for you to start feeling comfortable with discomfort… Does the act of writing ever make you feel uncomfortable? Perhaps it bores you just a little. Maybe it makes you feel frightened. Possibly, it frustrates you.
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Reading time: About 3 minutes 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 handle acronyms and initialisms… One of my pet peeves is seeing a piece of text larded
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 45 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 #104, which discusses how to handle competing creative interests. The post first ran on Aug. 16/19. Transcript Have
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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 from author Susan Orlean…. I have visited Southern California many times, on perhaps as many as a dozen different trips. But I have been to LA only once
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