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 wake up time… I have been a morning lark for the last 20 years. This means I […]
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Viewing time: 5 mins 3 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 #162, which describes how to write sentences with more impact. The post first ran
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from David Szalay…. The writer David Szalay was born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. (His surname is
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Reading time: About two minutes Sue Dvorak says that talking about writing is usually a mistake. Instead, it just burns up the drive you’ve had to do it… Sue Dvorak is a physiotherapist and a mother of six now-adult children. She dabbled in writing on and off over the years,
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Reading time: About 5 minutes (faster to scan) Do you ever write down what you need to accomplish? Here’s why all writers need checklists… Before I get into today’s column, can I ask for a quick favour? I’m looking for testimonials from people who get value from my newsletter. If
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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 shouldn’t be too quick to listen to agents…. In a recent column, publishing expert Jane Friedman tells the heartbreaking
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Viewing time: 4 mins 40 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 #161, which considers whether it’s wise to revisit mindmaps. The post first ran
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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 a metaphors and similes from Coco Mellors… Coco Mellors is a British writer living in the U.S. and known for her work in novels, copywriting, journalism, and
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah WaterRaven says writing is no different from any other profession…. Sarah WaterRaven is an urban fantasy author who says she kills people and then distracts readers with pixies. She is the author of Detective Docherty and I Fell in Love with a Necromancer. I
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Are you making writing too hard for yourself? Here are seven common mistakes that plague many people… When I wrote my first book, 17 years ago, I struggled to sit down to produce the first draft. I procrastinated constantly (I’d rather have worked on my
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