Reading time: Less than 3 minutes My husband and I just returned from a three-week trip to Europe. Here is part 1 of a three-part series on each of the cities we visited. Today I focus on Amsterdam with a piece on biking and writing. I didn’t own a bike […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Here’s my advice: don’t plan to write when you go on holiday. Instead, take a break…. My husband and I had been out for dinner. I awoke at 4:30 the next morning feeling vaguely “off.” After tossing and turning for half an hour, I decided
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Word count: 667 words Reading time: About 2.5 minutes Have you ever struggled with how to improve your writing? Here are five ideas so simple you may kick yourself for not having used them before now…. When I was a senior editor at a daily newspaper, I occasionally used to
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Word count: 656 words Reading time: About 2.5 minutes Did you smile when a host of Mary Poppinses floated down from the ceiling during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics? The Games have writing tips to teach us as well… My summer sport is walking – not a competitive event,
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Word count: 530 words Reading time: Just over 2 minutes Do you think that you must brush your teeth for 30 minutes or it’s not worth spending any time with a toothbrush? Of course not. Don’t think that about writing, either! When I was 11 years old, I went to
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Word count: 702 words Reading time: About 2.5 minutes I had a pro come to help me clean my office. The cost? Minimal. The benefits? Extraordinary. I’ve never been a hoarder except when it comes to my office. You know what a hoarder is, right? They are displayed in all
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Word count: 752 words Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you generally able to write easily and freely? If not, you might want to consider working to develop “flow”…. I first heard about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi about 15 years ago. The Hungarian psychology professor — now at Claremont, formerly at University
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Do you say negative things to yourself when you’re writing? If so, perhaps it’s time you went looking for a shoulder angel…. I was having coffee with a friend of mine recently and she started telling me about the “voices” inside her head. As
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Word count: 761 words Reading time: About 3 minutes Never underestimate the importance of having writing fun -– especially if you’re trying to make a living at it! Here are 10 ways to up the fun factor: Do you ever find writing is just plain tedious? Have you lost the
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Word count: 647 words Reading time: About 2.5 minutes Do you have enough time for reading? Here are five ways to ensure that you do…. “I love your idea of reading 52 books a year,” said a colleague last week. But the modifier “theoretically” hung in the air. “How do
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