Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors from Maggie O’Farrell… The Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell is one of the most interesting and skillful authors alive today. I have blogged about here several times before — here and here […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes If you take the time to plan your day, you’re going to be much more likely to be able to squeeze in some writing time… By Ann Gomez You can plan all you want, but sometimes life just happens. The meeting runs late. You receive an urgent request. The dog
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Don’t use artificial intelligence to write for you. Instead, get it to help you write more easily. There really are better ways to use ChatGPT…. I’m a longtime fan of the writer and psychologist Angela Duckworth — ever since the publication of her 2016 book Grit. But even the smartest
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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 binge writing… Even though I’ve long cautioned against binge-writing I sometimes get feedback from writers who disagree.
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 32 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 #83, with advice on how to do efficient research. The post first ran on Feb. 1/19. Transcript Welcome
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Reading time: About 3 mins. I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Ann Patchett… I’ve been a fan of Ann Patchett for many years, as you can see from some previous posts I’ve written about her. Her latest book, Tom
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Wellbeing routines sound like fun, but, in fact, they’re an essential way of supporting yourself while you do creative work like writing…. By Ann Gomez We know our work routines make us more productive. But we can turn this productivity strategy into a superpower when we build wellbeing into our
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Halloween may bring out the creepy crawlies, but perhaps you’re already dealing with a monster: fear of editing It’s not often that my newsletter goes out on Halloween, so I want to mark the occasion with a post on fear. Not fear of writing, which I’ve written about before. Not
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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 tip from consultant Emily Agnew… When my friend and colleague Emily Agnew (pictured above) gave me a tip some months
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 48 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 #82, with advice on juggling different types of writing. The post first ran on Jan. 25/19. Transcript:
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