As a former journalist and a communications consultant for more than 30 years, I devour books and articles about writing the way other people might eat bowlsfull of potato chips. If there is a book about writing, I’ve likely read it. (And if there’s a new one, I’m reading it shortly.) I also read about 90 blogs daily and scan the Internet voraciously, looking for new material about writing or related areas such as creativity, time management and freelancing. Writing about writing is a special pleasure for me because it helps me unite my core interests – reading and writing – and my lifetime of experience as a professional writer.
Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about the benefits of promoting yourself before you’re ready… I help many different types of author, and one …
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Reading time: About 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world for material to help other writers. Today I discuss why you might want to become a monkey bar blogger… Do you want to be a full-time blogger who makes good …
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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 how to restart a stalled book… Is your writing project: sitting in the …
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Reading time: About one 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 explore the question: why write fiction? Do you have romantic ideas about the life of being a fiction …
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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 writing dialogue… Are you a novelist faced with writing dialogue? If so, you …
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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 info to help other writers. Today I talk about permission for epigraphs… Last Monday I wrote about the need to check the source of quotes and epigraphs— those …
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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 what to do if you want to use quotes in your writing… Many writers like to use …
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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 sitting too much… Are you a writer who’s spending too much time …
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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 Seth Godin post about redundancy in writing… I’ve long appreciated the pithiness of Seth Godin‘s thinking …
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Reading time: About 1 minute Do you need to become better at accepting feedback? This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find materials to help other writers… Some writers have a hard time accepting feedback for their work. And when I …
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