Reading time: About 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 Jessica Winter… An editor at The New Yorker, where she also writes about family and education, Jessica Winter is the author of the tremendous new novel The […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Last week’s productive writing post focused on how to stop procrastinating. Today, you can pick up even more tips for dealing with this determined beast… By Ann Gomez Procrastination comes at a cost. It lowers our work quality, increases our stress, and strains our relationships. And yet we’re all guilty
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Does your self-critical voice work to shut down your writing? If so, here are five useful tips on how to silence your inner editor while you’re trying to write… Begin by understanding that we all talk to ourselves. And most of what we say is pretty negative. We question our
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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 to make your writing sparkle… If you want to make your writing sparkle, start avoiding so-called filter words. What are they?
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 6 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 #96, which addresses how to stop interruptions to your writing. The post first ran on June 21/19.
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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 similes from Sigrid Nunez…. Sigrid Nunez, pictured above, was only a moderately successful American fiction writer until she won the 2018 US National Book Award for Fiction for her
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Reading time: About 2 minutes If you postpone your writing endlessly, here’s my advice on how you can stop procrastinating… By Ann Gomez Are you a procrastinator? Maybe you’re even reading this instead of doing a certain task. If so, no judgment here. We all procrastinate (me included). Technically, research tells us that 95% of
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you try to be “all in” with your writing, even though you might not have very much time to do it? It’s a great strategy to pursue…. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “all in.” For example, you might say you’re “all in” with an exercise program. Or you’re
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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 asking the question: are you working too hard? I’ve been a fan of the writer Oliver Burkeman ever since I first encountered his
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Viewing time: 5 mins. 45 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 #95, which addresses how to prepare for the tax person. The post first ran on June 14/19. Transcript:
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