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: cicatrix…. I had heard extremely positive reviews of a new novelized account of the meeting of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, written […]
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Reading time: Less than 5 minutes Ever wondered how to overcome writing anxiety? If that’s an issue you face, here’s some detailed advice on how to respond… While many people believe the most common health issue facing the developed world is depression, in fact, the biggest challenge is something else.
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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 interview with young adult author John Green…. My kids introduced me to John Green (pictured
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Viewing time: 5 min. 50 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 #68, with advice on staying committed to your book. The post first ran on
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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 metaphors from Stacia Pelletier…. The plot of the novel The Half Wives by American writer Stacia Pelletier (pictured above), did not sound promising to
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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: deimatic… I was sick with a bad cold last week so I took the chance to watch lots of mostly bad Netflix
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Does shiny object syndrome seem to dog you? Today, I give a list of reasons why it might and five strategies for overcoming it. I was going to begin today’s post by asking if you were a crow. Then, some quick research informed me that
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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 filler words… When I use the phrase “filler words” I bet you think of spoken ones. Word
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 46 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 #67, with advice on writers’ time management. The post first ran on Sept.
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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 similes and metaphors from Canadian novelist David Chariandy…. A Canadian writer, who won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2017, David Chariandy (pictured above), grew up in Toronto and
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