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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
FAQs about The Writing Guy:How many episodes does The Writing Guy have?The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.
October 06, 2021Episode 195, Boris Johnson's party conference speechVying to be among the first people in the world to comment on today's speech, Scott looks at the PM's consummate and amusing use of language and rhetoric....more12minPlay
October 05, 2021Episode 194, an icon of music and language turns 70 todayScott celebrates the 70th birthday of an outspoken music legend....more10minPlay
October 04, 2021Episode 193, how to write actions and benefits, outcomes or resultsScott sharpens the grammatical difference between writing actions and benefits....more6minPlay
September 30, 2021Episode 192, Keir Starmer's missed opportunityScott laments the Labour Party leader's uninspiring keynote speech, which failed to blend the radical and the reasonable, to mix fire with ice....more10minPlay
September 29, 2021Episode 191, plain English, and a limerick inspired by Welsh beautyScott corrects the Business Secretary's wordiness and shares a saucy limerick about Welsh gorse....more8minPlay
September 28, 2021Episode 190, the artist's investment in their artInspired by a poster outside a shop in Aberaeron, Wales, Scott reflects on what buying a piece of art means....more5minPlay
September 26, 2021Episode 189 George W Bush's welcome letter to the new President, Barack ObamaGeorge Dubya's personal, heartfelt letter to the new President in January 2009 partly rehabilitates my opinion of the outgoing one....more9minPlay
September 23, 2021Episode 188, the story's (first) climaxIn his final reading from 'The Old Man and The Sea', Scott recounts the old man's harpooning of the magnificent fish...more11minPlay
September 22, 2021Episode 187, the great fish surfaces for the first time ('The Old Man and The Sea')In praise of Hemingway's evocative style, Scott reads a short passage from this wonderful story....more11minPlay
September 21, 2021Episode 186, Hemingway's economical styleScott reads a paragraph from 'The Old Man and The Sea' as an example of how the Nobel Prize-winning writer broke the cult of difficulty....more7minPlay
FAQs about The Writing Guy:How many episodes does The Writing Guy have?The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.