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: hawser… As a longtime fan of the English writer Julian Barnes, I gave a little squeal of joy when my husband picked up a 1989 book of […]
Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’re an academic seeking publication in a peer-reviewed journal, here’s a trick that will dramatically increase your odds of success…. I seldom write posts aimed at only one segment of my audience, but today’s column is intended for academics and grad students. If you don’t fall into that category,
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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 sitting too much… Are you a writer who’s spending too much time at your desk and not
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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: Welcome to The Write Question,
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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 as three short-story collections for
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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 the lesser known term. Such
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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 household. In fact, it was
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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 and writing. In a recent
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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 Skype account, The Write Question.
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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 York City. I fell in
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