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 word: lambrequin… One of the great — and simultaneously annoying — aspects of historical novels is that they may use words no longer […]
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Reading time: About 5 minutes When the day ends, do you find you’ve run out of time for writing? Here’s how to be more productive… I love August. My email drops by about 50% and my meetings by 75%. The entire world appears to have become like Paris — everyone’s gone
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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 about inclusivity in images…. If this blog post was about children’s health, what
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Viewing time: 5 min. 10 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 #70, with advice on how to protect your book’s confidentiality. The post first
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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 several similes from Candian writer Wayne Grady…. A translator, writer and writing teacher, Wayne Grady, is also the son of an African-Canadian father who passed for
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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 word: catamount…. I had heard or seen the word catamount, before I read it recently, but I had never taken the time to
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Reading time: About 6 minutes Many people seem to think they need to feel bad in order to write something that’s good. Instead, I suggest evaluating the types of negative thinking that are holding you back…. Do you find writing interesting and pleasant — a time filled with self-discovery? Or
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Reading time: About 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 the amount of time to spend writing…. When you sit down to write,
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Viewing time: 6 min. 18 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 #69, with advice on how to write cover letters. The post first ran
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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 similes and metaphors from R.O. Kwon…. R. O. Kwon (pictured above) is an American novelist. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and
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