Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’ve ever given yourself the label of laziness, understand that you’re not doing yourself any favours… I used to call myself a lazy procrastinator. Back when I was a university student, doing an honours degree in political science, I had to write a thesis — something that hung around […]
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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 TED talk with tips for handling hurtful advice about your writing… Writers can be exposed to hurtful or damaging advice about
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Viewing time: 4 mins 5 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 #202, which describes which editing software is the most helpful. The post first ran on Oct. 22/21.
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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 Deb Olin Unferth…. I had never heard of Deb Olin Unferth — an an American short story writer, novelist, and memoirist — until I read a delightful
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Todd Medema says that building a 15-minute-per-day writing habit allowed him to finish his book — and to find inspiration in everyday life… Todd Medema is the author of How to Surf a Hurricane, a hopeful climate heist. He works in climate (product management in clean energy) and is deeply
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Does your writing feel “meh” or “blah” to you? Here are five ways to make your writing five times better… Want to make your writing better? Much better? If you don’t like how your writing looks or sounds, there are five easy ways to turn it around. If you do
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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 on how to improve your writing productivity…. A blog post by Josh Spector recently caught my eye. In it,
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Viewing time: 4 mins 19 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 #201, which describes how to write a college application. The post first ran on Oct. 15/21. Transcript:
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Reading time: Less than 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 Casey Cep…. I was introduced to writer Casey Cep when I read her New Yorker article headlined, “We can’t afford to lose the Postal Service.”
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Walking in nature is one of the ways Dhana Musil inspires herself to write. She says it helps prepare her for long periods of sitting and creating… Dhana Musil lives on the unceded and occupied territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh people in British Columbia, Canada. She is a
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