10 Most Common Writing Mistakes
When writing for an audience, there are few more embarrassing things to discover after submitting your work than a mistake, or worse yet, mistakes in your submission. Not only are they embarrassing, but your mistakes could cost you future work with the publisher or diminish your credibility in the eyes of your readers. To avoid [...]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Review
Not one finger touched the keyboard in the making of this post. Instead, I dictated the post using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This is not the first time I have used the software. I first tried Dragon NaturallySpeaking back in the early 1990s. I was writing a dissertation and I wanted to save myself some time and [...]
Writing – It Pays To Get Organised
I have a system – and as a writer, I need it. When I started freelancing, it wasn’t hard to keep track of my clients – I didn’t have that many of them. Now, it’s different, and I need to be very organised to keep on top of my writing business. Here’s a peek at [...]
What Exactly Is A Rewrite?
Rewriting – love it or hate it, it’s part of the job of many web content writers. A typical situation is that a client asks you to write a series of articles for a particular purpose, such as to publish them on a website. At the same time, the client asks you to rewrite those [...]
Freelance Writing Questions: Starting Out In Freelance Writing
Why aren’t you writing yet? A lot of people dream of starting a freelance writing career, but never get around to doing it. One of the reasons is that they fall in love with the dream of writing, but find the reality hard to achieve. So what’s the first thing you should do if you [...]
How To Write A Travel Piece And Stay At Home
I’ve just completed a travel piece about a place I’ve never visited. It may seem a strange thing to do, but this was the commission that my writing client gave me. Usually a travel piece is full of local color, but how do you add that if you’ve never set eyes on the place?
Researching The [...]
Two Simple Rules Of Successful Freelance Writing
When it comes to making a success of freelance writing, two simple rules will take you far.
Rule #1: Follow The Brief
The brief is there for a reason. It’s meant to tell you how the client wants the job done. It’s true, not all writing briefs are as detailed as you might like. [...]
Web Writing Tip: Paragraphs
When you visit some sites, they are really hard to read. Sometimes that’s because of the lack of images, an area which I’m trying to improve. At others it’s because the text is served up in indigestible pieces. That’s the reason for my latest post on Daily Writing Tips. It’s called: Why We Need Paragraphs.
Reading [...]
Great Keyword Articles
Write Really Great Keyword Articles is today’s post from Dana Prince’s Writer’s Blog. I read this blog every day and it’s one of my favourites. This post will tell you why.
When you get an assignment that involves ten of the same keyword or twenty or more,it can feel like a bottomless pit at the start. [...]
Are You Afraid To Be A Writer?
It can be tough to make the decision to become a writer. Take me, for example. I started work as a journalist at 21, but I didn’t realise how much I loved the job until I stopped doing it for a while. Then I couldn’t wait to get back to it, but I still didn’t [...]
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