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:

June 09, 2021 Episode 145, how to cure wordiness
Pay attention to your average characters per word in the Readability Stats in Word.
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7min
June 08, 2021 Episode 144, the Magick of Spelling
Scott builds a bridge between spelling and magic, inspired by James Essinger's book, 'Spellbound'.
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10min
June 07, 2021 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.
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7min
June 06, 2021 Episode 142, my serendipitous day
Scott recounts how a precious book fell unexpectedly into his hands.
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8min
June 04, 2021 Episode 141, Scott's Big Five
The five writing techniques that can triple your readability in minutes.
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6min
May 31, 2021 Episode 140, Walt Whitman's elegy to Lincoln
Scott uses the opening stanzas of Whitman's 'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' to remind us of three age-old literary devices.
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11min
May 30, 2021 Episode 139, fiction and survival
Scott 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.
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8min
May 28, 2021 Episode 138, Noah Webster, American man of letters
This towering scholar and lexicographer (dictionary compiler) died 28 May 1843, after publishing 'An American Dictionary of the English Language'.
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9min
May 27, 2021 Episode 137, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
27 May 1994 the famous Russian writer and dissident returned from exile to his homeland, where he remained till his death in 2008.
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7min
May 26, 2021 Episode 136, the death of the Father of English History
26 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.
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9min

FAQs about The Writing Guy:

How many episodes does The Writing Guy have?

The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.