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 video about the inflatable man… Writer and blogger Austin Kleon is deeply creative. In a recent 51-second video, he explores […]
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Viewing time: 4 mins 46 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #164, which addresses the value of daily writing. The post first ran on
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from David Bezmozgis… Born in Latvia, David Bezmozgis is a writer and filmmaker based in Toronto. In the summer of 2010, he
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah Boon warns that writing a thousand words a day is no guarantee of a book by year’s end… Sarah Boon is a freelance writer and editor. She has published essays, book reviews, author interviews, and articles in a range of magazines and journals, including
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Do you think your writing would improve if only you could become more creative? Here are seven ways to boost your creativity…. We’ve never had pets in our household. Although I’d dearly love a cat, my husband is highly allergic to animal dander — and the thought
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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 blog post about the writing habits of Daniel Levitin… Like many writers, I love reading
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Viewing time: 5 mins 42 secs The Write Question is a weekly video podcast about writing that I started in 2017 and that ran, more or less weekly, until April 2022. This is a republication of issue #163, which addresses how to deal with perfectionism in writing. The post first
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Rachel Kushner…. Rachel Kushner is an American writer, currently living in Los Angeles. Her fourth and most recent novel (2024), Creation Lake, was
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jasmine Ruff says that writers shouldn’t fixate on form. She says she’s seen mediocre fiction writers become brilliant poets and vice versa…. Jasmine Ruff is a queer writer living in Vancouver — the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her
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Reading time: About 4 minutes Here is a long list of hacks to help you increase your writing motivation so that it really supports you…. Have you heard of the national competition that challenges people to write a novel in 30 days, NaNoWriMo? I haven’t participated. But I have written
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