Reading time: About 2 minutes Erin Zimmerman says you don’t need to be inspired or wait for inspiration to come to you in order to write. Instead, you just need to put in the work to shape it into something better…. Erin Zimmerman is an evolutionary biologist turned science writer […]
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you allow enough writing time for yourself? Or does it get squeezed out of your schedule? If you think money is your most precious resource, think again, my friend. I’m not saying this to suggest we should forgo pay for the work we do.
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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 a blog post about dealing with writer’s block…. I’ve worked with many writers struggling with writer’s
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Viewing time: 4 mins 36 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 #176, which addresses whether you can make a living as a writer. The
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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 a series of similes and metaphors from Anthony Lane… I don’t drink much, even at dinner parties. But in the summer I do love a weak
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Nadia Froese says that writer has a different writing process, and part of developing your craft is getting to know yours…. Nadia Friese is the author of the chapbook Something Spectacular, which was published by 845 Press in 2021. Her poetry and fiction have previously
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Reading time: About 4 minutes My stick-to-itiveness is my biggest strength. That’s why I’ve been able to persist with this project so long that I’ve produced 1,000 newsletters… I calculated when I’d hit the milestone of having written 1,000 newsletters many years ago. It seemed impossibly far away. But today,
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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 blog post about active and passive scenes… Writer J.D. Edwin has produced a very fine piece
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Viewing time: 4 mins 10 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 #175, which addresses how to become less anxious about publishing. The post first ran
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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 and similes from Burkhard Bilger…. As the mother of now-adult triplets, I spent several years deep in the trenches, feeding difficult, picky
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