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Want to read my work? Here’s where I’ve been published this quarter

One of the goals I lay out every year is to work for at least three new clients. While I have anchor clients in the Toronto Star, BBC News…

Dec 5, 2023

Want to read my work? Here’s where I’ve been published this quarter

Dec 5, 2023

How do you keep moving forward as a writer?

It’s a question I’ve said, and heard, as often as the sunset. What plagues many writers is the dire scenario of being static, progression…

Jul 7, 2023

How do you keep moving forward as a writer?

Jul 7, 2023

What should you do during your slow weeks? Marketing!

Every freelancer experiences the peaks-and-valleys trend in our business: some weeks, you’re overloaded with work and you might even be…

Jun 7, 2023

What should you do during your slow weeks? Marketing!

Jun 7, 2023

Hone your interview skills to write engaging profiles

If there is any journalistic format I’ve come to specialize in over the past 20 years, it’s writing profiles. It’s difficult to pinpoint…

Apr 28, 2023

Hone your interview skills to write engaging profiles

Apr 28, 2023

Why my new solo show is the most vulnerable project I’ve ever written

When I went full-time freelance in 2016, I wanted to dive deep into creative projects. First, I wrote a poetry collection published in…

Mar 22, 2023

Why my new solo show is the most vulnerable project I’ve ever written

Mar 22, 2023

How to Tighten Your Writing (Part 4): Avoid clichés and strive for fresh imagery

Have you ever read a story or article where the writers is so enamoured by well-worn and tired phrases that you wonder how they ever got…

Jan 29, 2023

How to Tighten Your Writing (Part 4): Avoid clichés and strive for fresh imagery

Jan 29, 2023

How to Tighten Your Writing (Part 3): Beware the run-on sentence

In this third part of my four-part series on tight writing, it’s time to learn about the importance of sentence variety.

Dec 31, 2022

How to Tighten Your Writing (Part 3): Beware the run-on sentence

Dec 31, 2022

How You Can Tighten Your Writing (Part 2): Avoiding Hedging and Qualifiers

In this second part of a four-part series on writing tight, I want to break down one of the less obvious but detrimental offences a writer…

Oct 31, 2022

How You Can Tighten Your Writing (Part 2): Avoiding Hedging and Qualifiers

Oct 31, 2022

How You Can Tighten Your Writing (Part 1): Rejecting Redundancies

When I coach writers, whether they work in creative fields or in journalism, I often see how their copy is laden with redundancies and…

Sep 24, 2022

How You Can Tighten Your Writing (Part 1): Rejecting Redundancies

Sep 24, 2022

What separates great writers from good writers? Discipline.

When I coach creative writers, I stress one key point: If you want to be a skilled writer, you need to be disciplined. You have to put that…

Sep 8, 2022

What separates great writers from good writers? Discipline.

Sep 8, 2022

David Silverberg

David Silverberg

Freelance journalist. Editor. Writing coach. I blog about how to earn more and level up your skills as a freelance writer.

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