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The Writing Guy episodes
- Episode 145, how to cure wordinessPay attention to your average characters per word in the Readability Stats in Word.7 min
- Episode 144, the Magick of SpellingScott builds a bridge between spelling and magic, inspired by James Essinger's book, 'Spellbound'.10 min
- Episode 143, Scott's Big Five (writing techniques)Scott explains how he managed to help eight clients double, and in one case, triple their readability.7 min
- Episode 142, my serendipitous dayScott recounts how a precious book fell unexpectedly into his hands.8 min
- Episode 141, Scott's Big FiveThe five writing techniques that can triple your readability in minutes.6 min
- Episode 140, Walt Whitman's elegy to LincolnScott uses the opening stanzas of Whitman's 'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' to remind us of three age-old literary devices.11 min
- Episode 139, fiction and survivalScott reads extracts from Mexican author Valeria Luiselli's speech for the Dublin literary award. Luiselli describes how reading fiction with her family helped them survive lockdown.8 min
- Episode 138, Noah Webster, American man of lettersThis towering scholar and lexicographer (dictionary compiler) died 28 May 1843, after publishing 'An American Dictionary of the English Language'.9 min
- Episode 137, Alexander Solzhenitsyn27 May 1994 the famous Russian writer and dissident returned from exile to his homeland, where he remained till his death in 2008.7 min
- Episode 136, the death of the Father of English History26 May 735 AD, the Venerable Bede died in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear. He'd written 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People' in 731 AD, a work of immense erudition.9 min
About The Writing Guy
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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,…
rhythm, poetry and poetic meter, grammar, punctuation and voice.