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: badinage… When I read the word badinage I could guess at its meaning from context. It appeared in the highly-praised new novel by Susan Choi, Trust Exercise, […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you already a Timely Tom or Tina? Or do you need to learn how to stop missing deadlines? Are you the kind of writer who misses deadlines? I know you well. In fact, I used to be you. When I was at university, many decades ago, I had a
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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 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch… I don’t read sci fi or fantasy or (usually) mysteries. This fact may explain
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 27 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 #39, about how to write better blog posts. The post first ran on Dec. 1/17. Transcript: Welcome to
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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 Bonnie Garmus…. Bonnie Garmus is an American copywriter and creative director who currently lives in London. Now, she has a best-selling breakout novel on her hands, Lessons
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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: birl… The contemporary definition of the word birl, refers to a boy(ish)-girl or girl(ish)-boy. In other words, it is someone who falls in between the traditional binary
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Reading time: Less than 4 mins. If you’ve never produced an annual writing plan, read on to learn why you should, and how to do it…. If I’d been faster off the mark, I’d have published today’s blog post before the end of 2022…. That way it would have been perfectly timed for so-called “clean
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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 an interview with George Saunders…. George Saunders (pictured above), is the bestselling author of short stories, essays, novellas, children’s books, and novels.
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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 #38, about whether talking about writing is a good idea. The post first ran on Nov. 24/17. Transcript: Welcome to The Write Question. I’m
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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 author Katie Williams… How is technology changing your life? Perhaps you’re walking more because of your Fitbit? Maybe you’re able to take away more books with you
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