Reading time: about 4 minutes To be a truly productive writer you need plenty of shut-eye. The absence of sleep will not only negatively affect your health, but it will also hurt your writing… Here’s how to get more sleep: I think a lot about sleep. A trip I once […]
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Viewing time: 4 mins 44 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 #153, which asks: what’s the value of a writing model? The post first
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Are you expecting TOO MUCH of yourself? Don’t let your BHAGs take control of your life…. You know what a BHAG is, right? It’s a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (pronounced like this: Bee Hag). I’m sure you have a few BHAGs lurking in your
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Viewing time: 4 mins. 30 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 #142, which discusses how to better organize your writing. The post first ran
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Back in the era of Mad Men, secretaries went into the offices of people like Don Draper (photo above) and took shorthand while he dictated. Now, however, you don’t need a secretary to be able to dictate…
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Viewing time: 3 mins. 47 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 #131, which discusses how to stop editing while you write. The post first
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Reading time: About 3 minutes There comes a time when you should stop reading, start writing. To figure out if this advice applies to you, calculate how many writing books you have on your shelves… How many books on writing do you own? How much time do you spend thinking about
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Reading time: Just over 5 minutes When I need an immediate boost, I have a list of 21 habits or tricks I can employ to get out of the writing doldrums… I live in a city with many fine attributes: the weather is mild, the mountains are beautiful, the beaches spectacular.
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Reading time: About 3 minutes If writing always feels like the LAST thing you want to do, it may be time to change your attitude about writing. Here’s how to do that…. I used a writing trick to help me with the laundry recently. Every Saturday morning, I think about
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you know how to finish the writing you start? Being a good finisher is an entirely separate task from being a good writer… I recently returned from a glorious two-week holiday on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island. We’ve been going to the same cottage
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