Viewing time: 4 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 the issue about freelance writing tips. The post first ran on March 23/18. Transcript: […]
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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 images from Tessa Hadley…. Tess Hadley is a British author, who writes novels, short stories and nonfiction. She has published eight novels, as well
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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: epiphenomena…. When a word is similar to a better known cousin, sometimes it’s harder rather than easier to discern the meaning of
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Reading time: About 4 minutes For a writer there are few things more frightening than hand pain from writing. Our livelihood — and our source of joy — is at stake! When I was a child in a family of seven, I had the clearest, most beautiful writing in the
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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 Seth Godin post about redundancy in writing… I’ve long appreciated the pithiness of Seth Godin‘s thinking
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Viewing time: 4 min. 37 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question focuses on how to stop editing email. If you have a question you’d like me to answer, email me at daphne@www.publicationcoach.com, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me at 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 metaphors from Irish-American writer Colum McCann…. Irish-American writer Colum McCann (pictured above), was born in Dublin but now lives and works in New
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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: apogee…. I’ve seen the word apogee dozens of times in my reading. I knew, vaguely, that it meant the height or high
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Shortening sentences — or, at least editing longer ones — is a great trick for making your writing more accessible to more readers… When I lead a writing workshop with a sizeable group of engineers or business people, I notice that many of them write sentences
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Reading time: About 1 minute Do you need to become better at accepting feedback? This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find materials to help other writers… Some writers have a hard time accepting feedback for their work. And when I
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