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: liana… I had never heard or seen the word liana before reading the marvellous Maggie O’Farrell memoir I am I am I […]
Reading time: About 3 minutes Discouragement sucks the joy out of our lives. But there’s no good reason to become discouraged with writing… Do you ever become discouraged with writing? You resent the time it takes and you’re never certain whether you’re going in the right direction. Or, perhaps you’re
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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 the need to feed your creativity…. I’m not generally a fan of fantasy,
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Viewing time: 3 mins 41 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 #31, describing how to deal with your fear of publishing. The post first ran
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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 similes and metaphors from Dwight Garner… I’m a big fan of the American journalist and longtime book reviewer Dwight Garner. His work appears in the New
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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: portmanteau… When I recently read the word portmanteau, I mistakenly thought of a porte cochère. The latter term refers to a covered entrance
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you tired of working all the time, with never a break in sight? It’s time for you to work less and live more… Are you working too much? Many writers do. So do many self-employed people. So do many ambitious people. It’s work, work,
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Reading time: Just over 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 building your writing habit via automation…. Do you have a habit that encourages you to write?
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 55 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 #30, describing how to spend less time rewriting. 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 similes and metaphors from novelist Monica Ali… Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. In 2003, she was selected as one of the “Best
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