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: masstige… I would never have predicted that fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi would give me more than one new word in his chatty […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Have you ever figured out how to get unstuck from your writing obstacles? Check out a new no-charge video I’ve just created on the subject… Are you the type of person who gets STUCK when you’re writing? Being stuck can take many manifestations. It may
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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 how cliches help writing… I abhor cliches — even though they spill out of my mouth with
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Viewing time: 4 min. 34 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 #66, with advice on dealing with rejection. The post first ran on Sept.
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about metaphors and similes from Rachel Syme… A New York Times Magazine article by Rachel Syme about the movie A Star Is Born, had me ready to
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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: brindle…. Todd Haynes is an American independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He first gained public attention in 1987 with his controversial
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Rejections are a challenge. But they are also inevitable, so you’d be wise to learn how to deal with rejection as a writer…. Most of us have had jobs we didn’t get, partners who dumped us, schools we didn’t get into and teachers who didn’t
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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 the question: will copy editing change your manuscript? When I wrote my first book, I assumed my professional editor wouldn’t have
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Viewing time: 3 min. 54 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 #65, with advice on how to make a business case for books. The post
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Jonathan Rosen… I have mixed feelings about a new memoir by Jonathan Rosen. On the one hand, I believe The Best Minds explores
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