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The Writing Guy
Scott Keyser
225 episodes
1 day ago
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.
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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.
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Episodes (20/225)
The Writing Guy
Episode 225, the true meaning of Commitment
The world recently lost a special woman whose lifelong commitment to duty gives the lie to this much-abused, over-used word.
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3 years ago
7 minutes 35 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 224. A mother's death
A piece of beautiful writing by Thich Nhat Hanh about his mother's death.
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3 years ago
6 minutes 20 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 223, Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Writing
Moved and inspired by the final of the BBC 'Strictly Come Dancing' show, Scott draws parallels between writing and dance.
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3 years ago
9 minutes 19 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 222, 17 things James is gonna change about his writing
I'm buzzing after a wildly successful coaching session with a client. In this episode you get to hear the 17 things James is gonna change about his writing (SDK - Spelling Doesn't Kount). Ta-daa!
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3 years ago
9 minutes 23 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 221, writing and mindset
Inspired by a successful session coaching a client in persuasive writing, Scott shares how together they turned a sow's ear of an email into a silk purse.
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3 years ago
8 minutes 8 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 220, the origin of 'protest'
On the day that he celebrated a life lost and took to the streets to help preserve hard won freedoms, Scott looks at the origins of 'protest'.
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3 years ago
7 minutes 24 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 219, switching mindset
Want a safe, legal way to shift your mindset fast? Plus the Word of the Day, courtesy of Susie Dent.
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3 years ago
8 minutes 28 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 218, client feedback on my rhetorica writing techniques
Having whittled rhetorica down to 15 simple techniques (from 21), I've just had further endorsement from a client of their power.
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3 years ago
4 minutes 35 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 217, the four readability stats
These are the four readability ratios that bid writers et al should track religiously to improve their writing.
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3 years ago
7 minutes 46 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 216, how multi-coloured is your writing?
Inspired by James Knight's iMA colour-based language system, Scott invites you to write in a way that appeals to all four colours.
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3 years ago
7 minutes 5 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 215, The Myth of Professionalism
Explode the Myth by writing plain English and using its five benefits.
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3 years ago
5 minutes 21 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 214, curing 'technical noise' in your bids
3 quick and easy ways to humanise factual, technical text in your bid responses. (The evaluator will love you forever.)
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3 years ago
6 minutes 3 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 213, what a bid client took away from a day's coaching with me
Besides a lovely testimonial, Scott shares what his coachee will change about her bid writing.
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4 years ago
7 minutes 40 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 212, George Monbiot's brilliance on how capitalism is killing the planet
A leading light on the climate crisis, Monbiot espouses a new approach for living within planetary boundaries.
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4 years ago
11 minutes 15 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 211, three dimensions of world-class bids
Inspired by a great coaching day with a client, Scott shares three vital aspects of a well written bid.
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4 years ago
9 minutes 7 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 210, Agincourt 1415
Scott indulges his love of history and poetry to recite his own poem, 606 years and one day after Henry V's famous victory.
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4 years ago
9 minutes 15 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 209, on St Crispin's Day, celebrating Agincourt (1415) and Chaucer (1400)
Indulging his love of Shakespeare, Scott recites the famous St Crispin's Day speech from 'Henry V'.
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4 years ago
9 minutes 37 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 208, the oppositional language of protest
Scott reads and comments on the language of the Saturday Guardian's article 'Forces of nature'. The article looks at the impact of arrest on climate protesters, including long-time activist and actress, Jane Fonda.
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4 years ago
10 minutes 34 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 207, 'sh*t', a visceral word used with power
Scott looks at the origins of this ancient, Germanic word and Brian Cox's use of it on BBC's 'Question Time' to stop two politicians squabbling.
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4 years ago
9 minutes 15 seconds

The Writing Guy
Episode 206, a common grammar mistake: the comma splice
Scott attempts to explain this increasingly common error, and gives three ways of resolving it.
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4 years ago
8 minutes 51 seconds

The Writing Guy
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.