As a former journalist and a communications consultant for more than 30 years, I devour books and articles about writing the way other people might eat bowlsfull of potato chips. If there is a book about writing, I’ve likely read it. (And if there’s a new one, I’m reading it shortly.) I also read about 90 blogs daily and scan the Internet voraciously, looking for new material about writing or related areas such as creativity, time management and freelancing. Writing about writing is a special pleasure for me because it helps me unite my core interests – reading and writing – and my lifetime of experience as a professional writer.
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 New York Times piece on the habits of famous writers…. If you like emulating the […]
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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 on journalling written by author James Clear…. Do you keep a journal? Or
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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 magazine article in which author Philip Pullman decried the amount of money paid to authors….
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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 recent NY Times article about something called Smart Compose… A few weeks ago my computer
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When 200 people volunteered to help move books, a small independent bookstore based in Southhampton, England, was overwhelmed — in a good way. October Books, a small independent store that had been struggling with rising rent had created a crowdfunding page to buy an old bank building down the block.
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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 series of tweets collected by Elizabeth McCracken…. Who is Elizabeth McCracken and how did she
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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 New York Times profile of Deborah Eisenberg…. American short-story writer and professor of writing at Columbia University, Deborah
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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 New Yorker article about bibliotherapy…. Here’s a word to learn: bibliotherapy. And a profession: bibliotherapist.
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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 computer keyboards…. We recently had our back door repaired and I’ve been
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Have you written a book and then struggled with marketing it? I get regular emails from readers in this situation. Many of them, it seems, are allergic to book marketing…
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