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Reading time: About 5 minutes Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. Covid, fires, floods, police violence, demonstrations, elections… What’s next? Swarming locusts? If you want a break from all the horror, check out 10 blog posts I’ve custom-picked for […]

Reading time: About 5 minutes Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. When I worked in the newspaper business, I had to learn how to cope with what we called “silly season.” At the height of summer — late August

Reading time: Just over 6 minutes (but highly scannable) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. Summer seems strangely surreal this year.  I just heard from a friend in Colorado, for example, that she must book time at a pool

Reading time: Less than 6 minutes (and very scannable) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. As summer starts to settle in, I’m feeling sun on my face and arms, going for socially distanced picnics and making tentative plans to

Reading time: About 6 minutes (but very scannable) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. Is anyone else a little tired of this pandemic? (Rhetorical question.) I spent this month making an explicit effort to find great articles, blog posts

Reading time: Roughly 8 minutes (but very skimmable) Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. I’m starting to think of COVID-19 as the pandemic that won’t end. Last week I had the suffocating feeling of being a prisoner in my

Reading time: Just over 6 minutes Here are my 10 favourite articles or posts from last month, focusing on the most useful, helpful and healthful pieces for writers. We live in the time of coronavirus, worried about the world’s health, scared about our financial security and bored from being stuck in our homes or apartments. 

Reading time: About 4 minutes The tuxedos, the fancy ball gowns and the red carpet: what else could it be but the peak of the awards season, the Oscars? I’m not wearing Swarovski crystals to present these awards for the best articles or pots I read this month. But on the upside, there are only