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 Leah McLaren… Memoir is my favourite genre. Nevertheless, I knew I was taking something of a risk this summer when I picked […]
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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: ruction… An unsparing novel that addresses and denunciates the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland, A History of Loneliness, by
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Reading time: About 2 minutes 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 post about how to increase readership for your author blog…. Are you an author who’s been
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 45 seconds 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 #27, describing how to hire a writer for your website. The post first
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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 Katy Tur…. Katy Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist who works as a correspondent for NBC News. She was also
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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: ineludible… I often like first novels because, while sometimes flawed, they often display an edge or a nerve that’s sometimes missing from
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Do you spend a lot of time thinking about what a crummy writer you are? I suggest, instead, you make some time to observe your thoughts… I’m in the beginning stages of a new book. And while I have more than 40 years’ experience as
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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 video for creatives about self-worth… If you’re a writer who struggles with self-worth, it’s time to
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 51 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 #26, describing what the word stet actually means. The post first ran on
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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 some similes and metaphors from Australian writer Geraldine Brooks…. Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Australia but who now lives in the
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