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: rick…. My father grew up on a farm but I was born a city girl. As a result, I had never heard the word rick. Until, that […]
Reading time: Less than 4 minutes Do you struggle with getting words on paper? If so, it may surprise you to learn that 11 highly counterintuitive strategies may help get you in to the write mindset…. In case you didn’t know, money doesn’t buy happiness. Science tells us that most of us are much more
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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 about writing injuries…. Back when I worked in the newspaper industry we used to joke that the worst
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Viewing time: 3 minutes, 17 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 #18, addressing how writers can go about finding an artist. The post first ran on May 26/17. Transcript: Welcome
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Reading time: Less than 2 minutes 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 Edward St. Aubyn… I had never heard of Edward St. Aubyn until recently. News penetrated my dim consciousness when I learned that Benedict Cumberbatch
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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: prelapsarian…. It was the headline that grabbed my attention. “How to Write a Bestseller,” promised the blog post written by Adam O’Fallon Price and published on the
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you need to learn the art of stopping procrastination? Here is a three-step hack that should make it relatively easy…. I frequently work with writers who procrastinate and delay. They want to write faster and better, and they may even be highly motivated to do it (as a result
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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 terrific online app called Character Counter…. Please, let me introduce you to a new editor. He goes by the name
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Viewing time: 3 minutes 13 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 #17, on preparing a wedding speech. The post first ran on May 19/17. Transcript: Welcome to The Write Question,
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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 metaphors from Noah Hawley…. I don’t typically read murder mysteries but when my friend Carlos Chavez recommend such a title a few days before I was about to
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