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I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes and metaphors from Nell Stevens…

I’m not a fan of ghost stories. But I appreciate well-written historical fiction. And I also like the writing of Nell Stevens.

Her...

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If she doesn’t manage to write on a given day, Lucille Guarino tries not to be too hard on herself.  Sometimes, she’ll even give herself a pass, she says. 

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Do you wince when you hear about the success of other writers? It’s likely you’re just suffering from availability bias…

You’ve probably never heard of the availability bias. But it’s been running most of our writing lives for years.

Here’s how it works:

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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 helpful blog post about writing interruptions…

I take it for granted that I’m going to face regular interruptions as a writer. I t...

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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 #213, which describes how to cut words from a book that’s too long. The post first ran on Jan. 14/22.

Transcript:

How do you cut words...