Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Beginning to lose your enthusiasm for your New Year’s resolutions? Here are some ways to make your writing ones stick …. I listen to the radio while I do my back exercises every morning and these days the airwaves are filled with nothing but talk about new year’s resolutions. While […]
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Have you ever put a raw frog on your menu? I suspected not! Here’s why you should try to eat one every day — and do it first thing in the morning… I was born organized. In fact, I’m the kind of nut-bar who writes a family meal plan once
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you writing for the right reasons? You might want to consider the words of singer Freddie Mercury before you continue… Every day — I try and I try and I try — But everybody wants to put me down They say I’m goin’ crazy They say I got a
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Reading time: About 2.5 minutes Mothers, doctors and engineers all benefit from charts. But it’s a strategy that many writers overlook. Have you ever thought of drawing up a writing record? Sixteen years ago, I spent much of my life feeding babies. Heck, in those days, I spent all of my life feeding babies. My
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Reading time: Less than 3 minutes Today’s column describes how my daughter’s scoliosis reminds me of the additivity of small numbers and how this principle can have a dramatic impact on your writing. My 15-year-old daughter and I share many traits. We’d both rather eat a really good piece of cheese than a sweet. We share
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you want to improve your writing process? Today’s column will give you five key tips for better writing. School has changed a lot since Sister Mary Rosa taught me to read in the 1960s — but one thing doesn’t seem to have evolved. The teaching of writing. Most schools don’t
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Do you ever do what I call desperation writing? Today’s post describes how to eliminate the “must” and find the desire to write. Are you ever desperate to get something written? And chronically unable to do it? Well, I have three suggestions for you. But first let me begin with
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Do you try to set writing goals for yourself, but fail to achieve them? Today’s column gives you an easy, five-step formula for developing goals you’ll actually meet. I used to go work out three to four times per week. I’m not allowed to now, on account of my recent stroke. But this time of year
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