Reading time: About 3 minutes If you’re easily distracted, it’s going to be tough for you to write. Here’s how to increase your attention span, to make the work or writing easier. For a couple of years, my kids started calling me “Daphne,” instead of mom when they wanted to […]
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Reading time: Less than 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 an article written by Nancy Andreasen…. Have you ever wondered about the relationship between creativity and
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Viewing time: 4 mins 32 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? How do you write every day? If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me at the
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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 metaphors, similes and personification from Gail Honeyman…. When I heard the book title, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (pictured above), I
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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: scrimshaw… Someday soon, I will create a dictionary of the words I’ve seen several hundred times but still have no idea what
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Survivorship bias might sound like a pointy-headed theory that has nothing to do with writing. But read on to learn why that’s a mistaken idea… I apologize for throwing a scary piece of jargon your way with the term survivorship bias. What does this strange
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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 on grammar mistakes that even smart people make…. My parents rigorously correct my
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Viewing time: 4 mins 21 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast all about writing. Today’s question? How do you find an angle for writing? If you have a question you’d like me to answer you can email me, tweet me @pubcoach, or leave a message for me
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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 metaphor from New Yorker scribe Andrew Marantz…. I like political satire as much as the next person, but American politics is so coo-coo right now that
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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: riverine…. In reading the New Yorker, I encountered a word I’d never seen before. It appeared an Aug. 21/17 article headlined, “Is
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