Benjamin McEvoy

Essays on writing, reading, and life

Why Start An Email Newsletter? (Video)

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Starting an email newsletter is one of the most rewarding things you can do online. After managing multiple successful email newsletter campaigns for businesses in different industries over the years, not to mention getting great joy out of running my own email newsletter, I decided I want to teach you how to start your own […]

How To Analyse Your Dreams (Video)

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This is probably one of the strangest videos I’ll ever do. We’re talking about dream analysis, using art to get into your unconscious, tarot readings, self-help practices, and examining the metaphors that rule our lives. How To Analyse Your Dreams Works that inspired this video: Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols (link) (review) Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of […]

1,000-Night Reading Program For Writers (Video)

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Lockdown has allowed me to return to my favourite reading program: The Bradbury Trio. In this short video, I tell you all about the best reading program for writers and recommend specific resources so you can get started right away. 1,000-Night Reading Program For Writers Feeling up for the reading program? Let me know how […]

How to Build a Memory Palace (Video)

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This is a rough cut behind-the-scenes look at one of the modules in my upcoming free video course on effective study techniques. I’ve written about the memory palace, or method of loci, before. But thought it potentially beneficial to demonstrate how the memory palace looks in terms of constructing an essay. This video is just […]

How Ted Hughes Writes A Poem: Bayonet Charge (VIDEO)

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I’m playing around with starting a YouTube channel, a little side project, and I just put out my first video. This one is a quick analysis of Ted Hughes’ poem ‘Bayonet Charge’, which you might find useful if you’re doing the Power and Conflict module for GCSE English Literature. Or maybe you just enjoy thinking […]