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: marled…. My adult children tease me about being a fashion disaster. Sure, I can “clean up” for speeches and meetings with clients, […]
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Here’s some practical advice on how to write more concisely…and if you can’t do that, how to edit the extra verbiage you’ve produced… When I started writing, 40 years ago, I always wrote short. If a client or boss wanted 750 words, I’d struggle to
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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 blog post about how to get better publishing advice…. Have the fates ever tempted you to ask a successful author for
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Viewing time: 4 min. 15 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 #64, with advice on how to write sample chapters of your book. The
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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 the masterful writer Eleanor Catton…. The New Zealand novelist and screenwriter Eleanor Catton is a phenomenon. Born in Canada, Catton moved to 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: bawn When I read the book The Innocents by Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey, I sometimes felt as though I was reading a
Reading time: About 4 minutes Looking for some recommended books in time for summer reading? Here’s my semi-annual roundup of books I’ve read this year. I aim to read 52 books every 12 months, and my habit is to post a complete list of the names of them for you, twice a
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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 topic of hybrid publishing… You may recognize me as someone who doesn’t much like hybrid publishing. But in case you
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Viewing time: 6 min. 30 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 #63, with advice on how to resume writing after a holiday. The post
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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 Ian McEwan, I’m generally a big fan of the English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan and have written about him many times before.
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