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 simile from Patrick Radden Keefe…. I seldom buy hard-cover books. Instead, I get them out of the library or I wait for the paperback to come out. For reasons I […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an important initiative to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues and raise awareness about the role mental health plays in our overall health and wellbeing. By Ann Gomez Have you heard the story of the happiness balloons? It’s a tale that made the
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Reading time: About 4 minutes When we started to downsize, I had no idea I’d get a series of writing lessons from the exercise…. My husband and I are far from being hoarders. Friends and visitors often comment on how neat and tidy our house looks. What they don’t see is all the doodads, gewgaws
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Reading time: Less than one 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 magazines that pay writers…. If you’re a freelance writer desperate to make a little more money, check
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 15 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 #112, which gives advice on separating personal from professional writing. The post first ran on Oct. 18/19. 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 images from Elizabeth McCracken…. I learned about Elizabeth McCracken’s remarkable 1996 novel The Giant’s House, via the New York Times book review podcast. (I wrote about it recently and
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Reading time: About 2 minutes If you want to accomplish more, consider how you can use the power of focus…. By Ann Gomez Is it challenging for you to build focus time into your day? We know distractions can derail our productivity. This is a predicament for many of us. And yet we default to
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Without a writing routine, it’s probably pretty close to impossible for you to get a substantial amount of writing done… I taught a two-week course on research last month. It turned my writing routine upside down and required me to spend oodles of time responding to chats. Not that I
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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 getting enough sleep for writing…. I always roll my eyes when writing coaches and productivity experts advise
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 55 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 #111, which gives advice on how long your book should be. The post first ran on Oct. 11/19.
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