• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Lexis Writing

Copywriting, Content, Coaching: Online and in Central London

Main navigation

  • Blog
  • Writing Services & Coaching
  • Books for Writers
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Lynn Reynolds

How To Have Ideas: Six Steps To Your Personal ‘Eureka’ Moment

Lynn Reynolds · May 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment

How To Have Ideas: Six Steps To Your Personal ‘Eureka’ Moment

The question of how to have ideas isn’t just for people working in explicitly creative roles: if you’ve got a job, any job, sooner or later someone will expect you to think stuff up. When I was at school doing my ‘A’ levels, I worked as a hospital cleaner. My manager was always asking me […]

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: Excel, freewriting, Getting Started, Ideas, Isaac Asimov, John Ingledew, Mind Maps, Practicalities of Writing, Scapple, Scrivener, Wired Magazine, Writing inspiration, Writing Process

Why Read Science Fiction?

Lynn Reynolds · March 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Why Read Science Fiction?

Why read science fiction? Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not about science. Given that so many of us have been reading science fiction for years, you’d think the answer to this question would be obvious, wouldn’t you? Especially as my new year resolution for 2017 is to read more contemporary sci-fi. It’d seem strange if I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Cixin Liu, HG Wells, I, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, Johanna Sinisalo, John Wyndham, Liu Cixin, Naomi Alderman, Robot, science fiction, The Core of the Sun, The Day of the Triffids, The Power, The Three-Body Problem, War of the Worlds

How to Write an Introduction: Your Three-Step Guide to Doing It Better, and Doing It Faster

Lynn Reynolds · January 9, 2017 · Leave a Comment

How to Write an Introduction: Your Three-Step Guide to Doing It Better, and Doing It Faster

Whatever you’re working on, you too can write excellent introductions by rethinking your writing process, and by taking a tip from journalism. 1.    Write Your Introduction Last Seriously. That’s because I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen writers stuck at the first sentence because they’re trying to write the introduction first. But […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Argumentation, Getting Started, Introduction, Journalism, Ledes, Psychology for Writers, Rhetoric, Standfirst, The Guardian, Writing Process

Word of the Week: Macaronic

Lynn Reynolds · December 23, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Word of the Week: Macaronic

No, it’s not about your (or my) favourite pasta dish. Macaronic is a term referring to mixed language. You hear a lot of it around diaspora peoples and their descendants, who have a habit of peppering one language with terms and idioms in another. Here’s the definition from my Chambers dictionary app: Now, without further […]

Filed Under: Vocabulary, Writing Tagged With: Vocabulary, Words

When Location Rebellion Goes Bad

Lynn Reynolds · August 8, 2016 · Leave a Comment

When Location Rebellion Goes Bad

In which our writer heroine perches on a huge, wobbly pilates ball and finds she can’t think of anything except falling off it. The best thing about being a freelance writer is that I can work from pretty much anywhere. Yup, I’m a location rebel. All I need is a reasonable internet connection and my […]

Filed Under: Time and Place to Write, Writer's Life Tagged With: Practicalities of Writing, the business of writing

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • …
  • Page 11
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Sign up for my useful and enjoyable newsletter here.
It's a little bit of sunshine in a dark and rainy world, you know.

I promise not to send you more mail than you can handle. That's called spam. And of course you're free to unsubscribe whenever you like; you'll find an unsubscribe link in every newsletter I send.

Who Am I, and Why Should You Care?

I’m Lynn Reynolds; your local wordsmith superheroine, fighting crimes against writing on a daily basis. When the Bat Light goes up over Gotham, you can rely on me to help you put some “Pow!” and “Zap!” into your prose.

Peruse my blog to become a better, more confident writer (whether you write for business, education, or simply life in general).

Contact me: lynn@lexiswriting.com

Connect with me on Twitter and Instagram.

What we’ve been blogging about

Analogue Sensibilities Anne Lamott Argumentation Austin Kleon Book Reviews Books Bullet Journal Content Writing Copywriting Dave Trott Digital Editing Elizabeth Gilbert Evernote George Eliot Getting Started Good reads Isaac Asimov Julia Cameron Mark Twain Passive Voice Practicalities of Writing Problems Procrastination Psychology for Writers Reader Feedback Research Rhetoric speechwriting Steal Like an Artist Stephen King Technology for Writers and Writing the business of writing Usage Vocabulary Web Writing Wildlife Wordpress Words working with a copywriter Writer's Block Writing inspiration Writing Process Wunderlist You Are A Writer!

Top Posts & Pages

  • Writing Services & Coaching
  • Word of the Week: Alliteration
  • How To Have Ideas: Six Steps To Your Personal 'Eureka' Moment
  • Books for Writers

Subscribe to the Blog via Email

Like what you see? Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Because you don't want to miss a thing, am I right?

Randomly Selected From the Lexis Writing Archive Especially for You

Are Contracts Really Necessary for Freelance Writers? You Bet They Are. Here’s Why

Lately I’ve been devoting time, energy and money to the process of drawing up a set of contracts for my freelance writing services. If you’re a … [Read More...] about Are Contracts Really Necessary for Freelance Writers? You Bet They Are. Here’s Why

Word of the Week: Cognate

This week's word is offered by way of elucidating something for my own benefit. I know deep in my heart that the words 'cognate' and 'cognitive' don't … [Read More...] about Word of the Week: Cognate

My Spacehop Review

Finding the right place to write can be a challenge, but it’s just possible that this new startup could be offering exactly what writers need. If you … [Read More...] about My Spacehop Review

Word of the Week: Coterminous

This week's word is one I find almost endlessly useful. A definition, please, Chambers: This is a good one to use figuratively, as in, "I'm sure we … [Read More...] about Word of the Week: Coterminous

Too Much Information! How to Find Quality Information Online

Not so long ago if you were writing an essay or doing research there were only books and journals, and looking for information often entailed a trip … [Read More...] about Too Much Information! How to Find Quality Information Online

There’s No ‘I’ In Report Writing. Apparently

The passive voice: anyone who’s ever written a lab report or student essay will be mighty familiar with this concept. And they’ll possibly, like me, … [Read More...] about There’s No ‘I’ In Report Writing. Apparently

Copyright © 2018 · Daily Dish Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in