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: epicanthic… Even though there is a doctor in my family, my understanding of medical terminology is weak. (I was always a word […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you using too many words — deliberately? It’s a bad habit and you’ll be a much more successful writer if you deal with it now… Are you the type of person who deliberately writes more words than you need? I’m not talking about people
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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 how to find better comps… If you’ve never written a book, or never
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Viewing time: 4 minutes and 5 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 the fourth issue, on lack of confidence, which ran on Feb. 10/17. 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 metaphors from Sarah Ruhl…. Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. I can’t remember what led me to pick up her memoir, Smile:
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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: androgynous… I think just about everyone knows the term, androgynous means, “partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex.” The photo
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Reading time: About 5 minutes Want to improve your ability to put words on the page or screen? Pay attention to the neuroscience of writing…. Most of us like to think of ourselves as independent and full to the brim with self-will. But, in fact, many of us are directed
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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 how to use social media to find new readers… Are you a blogger
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Viewing time: 3 minutes and 49 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 the third issue, which ran on Feb. 17/17. Transcript Welcome to The Write Question, 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 a series of similes from Valerie Perrin… The author Valerie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, France. Her first novel The Forgotten Sunday , which was
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