Editing and proofreading your blog will help you get your message out clearly. Blogs have become popular outlets for getting ideas and thoughts into the public sector. Blogs are used for instruction, advice, marketing, and creative endeavors. There are a number of easy ways to create a blog, but no matter what type of blog [...]
March 27, 2013
The Writing Biz: Six Lessons from Star Trek’s Mr. Spock
I loved Star Trek as a kid; I still do. So imagine my glee when this month’s Word Carnival had the theme Close Biz Encounters of the Sci-Fi Kind. My favorite character from the Original Series (and in fact any series) was Vulcan Science Officer Mr. Spock. He was a man of few words, often [...]
February 27, 2013
The Tools I Love for my Writing Business
Valentine’s Day 2013 has come and gone but love is still in the air – at least when it comes to the Word Carnival I take part in every month. The thing is, I’ve already talked about romance and my writing business, so this month I’m going to do something different and share the tools [...]
February 18, 2013
Light Up the Brain: Create Fireworks With Your Writing [Infographic]
Whether you are a blogger, a copywriter, a marketing specialist or a songwriter, these interesting facts about writing and the brain in this infographic will intrigue you. The most interesting of all is the idea that when we are listening to or reading a story, a whole range of areas within our brain light up [...]
February 12, 2013
Understanding Reader Psychology to Give Your Writing More Impact
If you want to improve the quality of your writing, then you’ll probably spend a lot of time reading about how to increase your vocabulary, structure your introductions and conclusions, and gather research effectively. In short, you are probably focusing on the craft of writing itself. That’s not wrong, but to really maximize the impact [...]
January 30, 2013
Your Writing Business – How to Rekindle the Romance
No matter how much you love your writing business, there are days, weeks and months when you don’t feel motivated. To be fair, this can happen at different stages. For me, it’s happened: when I was starting out and realized how much work I’d have to do to have a sustainable income at the pitiful [...]
January 25, 2013
Redesigning My Writing Site – 2013
What does your writing website need? It’s a question I’ve asked myself many times over the years and each time I get a new answer (because I always do), I change something else. But for the latest change, the impetus was a web critique I won from my pal and marketer extraordinaire Tea Silvestre, the [...]
January 18, 2013
Going APE About Writing and Self-Publishing
APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book is the title of the new book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch. Since I’m passionate about writing and publishing, I was very excited when Guy offered me a review copy. In a nutshell, I thought it was excellent and from here on in I’ll be recommending [...]
December 7, 2012
5 Tips for Writing Powerful Product Descriptions
Writing product descriptions isn’t as easy as it looks, so I’m happy to welcome back Pawel Grabowski with some tips on this writing skill. Running an ecommerce store is not easy. I really don’t want to sound too dramatic but each day it gets more and more difficult to convince people to buy. Online retailers [...]
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