The Writing Guy

By Scott Keyser

A daily exploration of the written word from a seasoned writer and writing skills trainer, to help you improve your English writing skills. The pod covers persuasive writing, therapeutic writing, rhyt... more

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How many episodes does The Writing Guy have?

The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.

The Writing Guy episodes:

March 06, 2021 Episode 65, how to write with 'panache' (merci, Cyrano de Bergerac)
Inspired by the verse play, 'Cyrano de Bergerac', how do we write with dash and panache?
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7min
March 05, 2021 Episode 64, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
If you're suffering with anxiety like me at the moment, read (out loud) this beautiful poem. Is it better than valium? You be the judge of that.
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6min
March 04, 2021 Episode 63, on this day in 1861 Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as 16th President
Scott looks at a couple of the rhetorical devices in Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg address that make the nation-forming speech iconic.
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7min
March 03, 2021 Episode 62, when is it OK to use the passive voice?
Scott describes four scenarios where it serves us to use the passive voice.
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8min
March 02, 2021 Episode 61, troll Slippy and his love of the passive voice
Passivitis - over-use of the passive voice - is the carbon monoxide of business writing. Good writers have a CO alarm in their locker.
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6min
March 01, 2021 Episode 60, synonyms for 'tired', and troll Slippy
Informal and formal synonyms for 'tired'. Plus, we meet the next writing troll, Slippy.
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7min
February 28, 2021 Episode 59, how writing troll #3, Gushy, uses adjectives
Gushy must learn to use adjectives that inform rather than emphasise.
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4min
February 27, 2021 Episode 58, The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of this 1855 epic poem written in trochaic tetrameter, was born today, 27 Feb.
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9min
February 26, 2021 Episode 57, abstractionism ad absurdum - a new writing syndrome
Abstract, non-concrete language is not clever: it just obscures your message to the reader. Abstruse, ie hard to understand, is a close cousin of abstract.
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8min
February 25, 2021 Episode 56, how not to write like Gushy, troll #3
Avoid the Hysterical School of Writing, which tells rather than shows. To persuade your reader, you must show more than you tell.
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8min

FAQs about The Writing Guy:

How many episodes does The Writing Guy have?

The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.