March 9, 2010
We recently started a side project working with people who have never had a website, a blog, or anything that requires more...- If you stick to it in this business, if you work on your craft and keep striving to improve, the chances are actually pretty good that you will achieve some level of success. There’s a saying I really like from Richard Bach: “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” And that is so, [...]
My advice on dealing with editors is to say yes to all suggestions unless you want to say no, to ask in those cases if the point might be set aside until later, and to proceed thus until all suggestions have been addressed. At that point, the writer should feel free to insist on having his or her way on the points set aside.
THOMAS POWERS
- In my book "Writing Tools" I make the argument that a writer should know "when to back off and when to show off." The more serious the topic, I argued, the more the writer should soft-pedal the language. The less serious the topic, the more the writer can twist and shout.
Then, one day, I... 
This is a guest post by Nicholas Z. Cardot. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the...
- How do you write a great article for your network marketing business, home business or for social media? Your article has to seem as though it was personally written for your reader. Here are 5 steps that will help you write a compelling article that will capture your readers.
- I was discussing with my Internet repairman today about this generation's complacency over privacy with Social Media. I think I hit it on the head when I said they don't realize what they have because they were born into it and didn't have to fight for their rights like previous ...
... - Learn from people who are excelling in this field. Create a list of names of those people who are considered successful in the field of magazine article writing. It's important that you learn from them so you can easily follow their footsteps.
- For an experienced creative writer, writing is something they just do. But for the writer who is just starting out, creative writing can be downright scary.
- Improve your click-through rates, or your CTRs, by not just stuffing any keywords in your website and into your articles. There is a possibility that this could generate a lot of search engine popularity but, with regards to the traffic to your website, it might leave your audience disappointed.
