Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Niall Williams… The novel This is Happiness by Niall Williams sat at the top of my list of recommended books for 2020. Now, […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah Nakawatse says that writing is not so much about reaching the endpoint, but instead about all the experiences you have along the way… Sarah Nakawatase is the author of the romantic suspense novel Double-Crossing the Border and co-author of the science fiction novel Dormant
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you trash talk yourself, or do you know how to get your inner voice to talk better to you? If you write, you’ve heard it. That voice. The one that shows up around paragraph three to announce that the whole thing is terrible and
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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 typographical manual you can find on Project Gutenberg… I learned to type on a typesetting
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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 #212, which weights the structure for persuasive writing. The post first ran on
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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 Patrick Bringley…. Two friends and a distant family member had recommended a new book by Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the
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Reading time: About 2 minutes S.M Stevens tries NEVER to make writing a chore. “Otherwise, what’s the point of this labor of love?” she asks. S.M. Stevens has written the friendship/social justice novel Beautiful and Terrible Things, which won seven awards including Best Literary Book of 2024 from Indies Today;
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If strange words and counter-intuitive ideas appeal to you, read on to learn how jootsing can improve your writing… The word looks ridiculous on the page: Jootsing. And it sounds worse out loud. Try saying, “I jootsed today” with a straight face. Still, the idea
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Reading time: Less than 2 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 advocating using fiction techniques in memoir… I recently stumbled across a terrific blog
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Viewing time: 4 mins 27 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 #211, which considers the market for historical fiction. The post first ran on
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