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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Reading time: About 4 minutes Do you ever worry about it being “too late” for you to write? Perhaps surprisingly, there are many benefits to being an older writer… I am in my 60s. Old enough to understand acutely that my time is being whittled away by both age and
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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 defacing books by Austin Kleon…. When I was a university student, I
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Reading time: Just over 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 TED Talk about how to get your body ready for writing…. Many of my clients
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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: liana… I had never heard or seen the word liana before reading the marvellous Maggie O’Farrell memoir I am I am I
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 a blog post on the negative effects of screen reading… I love my Kindle. I like
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Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Here is a brief summary of the top pubcoach blog posts for 2019. Happy New Year to all my readers! I write each installment of Power Writing with high hopes about how it might interest — and help — my readers. Some topics, I
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Reading time: Just over 3 minutes You may think you’re too busy to write, but first ask yourself whether you could build a writing habit… Are you too busy to write right now? I know I am. I’m dealing with a bit of a family emergency and I spent the past
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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 the words ‘but’ and ‘actually’…. I read a blog post this week
Reading time: less than 3 minutes Many people use PowerPoint as the default tool for writing their speeches and presentations. That’s not always a wise decision…. Whenever I’ve written about the software PowerPoint, I’ve usually received a flood of email. A few readers may disagree with my basic premise that
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