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 anticipation by Donald Maass…. If you’re a novelist, does your writing give your readers enough… anticipation? You […]
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Viewing time: 4 min. 48 sec. 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 #62, with advice about how to promote a book without social media. The
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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 similes and metaphors from JR Moehringer… John Joseph Moehringer, known by his pen name JR Moehringer, is an American novelist, journalist, and ghostwriter.
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s words: rames and asperous…. Canadian novelist Michael Crummey writes with a colourful vocabulary. I think this is a result of his Newfoundland heritage,
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Reading time: About 6 minutes (but easy to scan much faster) I offer this post on how to kill your productivity because we often learn best by learning the opposite of what we want to do… I write about productivity a lot because time is the most valuable element we all have. It’s
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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 for material to help other writers. Today I ask the important question: have you met your rejection quota yet? Most people think of rejection as an entirely undesirable occurrence.
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Viewing time: 3 min. 48 sec. 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 #61, with advice about how to create a book launch team. The post
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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 metaphors from Elizabeth Strout… Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is one of the best, most skillful fiction writers alive in the US today. Born in Portland, Maine,
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: skerry…. An award-winning poet and storyteller, Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland. He writes
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Could you turn your writing side hustle into an actual job? Yes, you can. Read on to learn how… I wrote my first national magazine piece as a 27-year-old. They paid me so much I could have bought a car in cash the next day.
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