Reading time: About 2 minutes Does “little stuff,” like rounding up hockey gear, or booking doctor’s appointments, end up taking your whole day? Here’s how to manage supporting tasks so they’ll take up less of your time… By Ann Gomez Many busy people will tell me they could easily spend […]
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Reading time: About 5 minutes The inner editor — that voice inside your own head — may seem like your best, most concerned friend but, in fact, he or she is your worst enemy. Let me help you save yourself from your inner editor… I have written two books, and
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Reading time: Less than 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 an infographic on how we spend time on social media… When I was a kid in
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Reading time: Less than 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 revealing how to find a book editor…. I have worked as a professional
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 4 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 #77, with advice on when to start new chapters in your book. The
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Reading time: About 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 Yasuko Thanh…. Yasuko Thanh is a writer and guitarist, born in Canada to a German mother and a Vietnamese father. At the
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you feel too busy to breathe, never mind to write? Here’s information about a great productivity tool that could change your writing life… By Ann Gomez Margaret, a busy communications executive, and mother of three, was constantly racing from one meeting to the next
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Can you ignore your phone, your email and your boss while settling down to write? Or have you never learned how to stop getting distracted while working? Do you get distracted too easily? You’re trying to work and — ZING — a squirrel runs in
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about the risk of being too productive… Is it possible that you are too productive? I know I
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 34 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 #75, answering a question about whether it makes sense to hire a copywriter.
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