In March of 1962 five Florida teens went on a 7ft Air Force raft to skindive and explore the semi-submerged shipwreck the USS Massachusetts, which sits on a sandbar about 2 miles from shore in the Gulf of Mexico. Only one boy returned. The survivor, Brian McCleary, was 16 at the time and his account […]
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This column is excerpted from Create Your Writer Platform, from Writer’s Digest Books. Article writing can be great for your career as a writer: nothing bad can come from writers trying to sell content to magazines, newspapers and websites. Think about it. Selling articles ups your credentials and credibility; it gives you something awesome to […]
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Writing courses are great, but one-on-one feedback can propel your writing forward fasterPhoto by John Schnobrich on Unsplash An excellent writing course is packed full of resources that will help develop your craft. And just like a battered copy of Stephen Kings On Writing, a great writing course takes you through the writing process from start to finish. […]
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Or, getting curious about a year instead of trying to mold it against its willPhoto by Alin Rusu on Unsplash I don’t know about you, but the last two years have taken the (false) feeling I had of being on solid ground and replaced it with, well, balancing a hundred feet in the air on the ledge […]
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TL;DR: The Instoried AI Content Checker: Lifetime Subscription is just $39 at the Mashable Shop as of Jan. 1. Anyone can write content for their business. But not everyone can write good content that actually converts. Injecting a little soul and feeling into your writing can go a long way in persuading folks to click […]
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Erika Alexander was once told that science fiction isn’t for Black people. This exchange took place in a meeting with a major Hollywood studio president, where Alexander — an actor known for the likes of Get Out and Wu-Tang: An American Saga — along with ex-husband and collaborator Tony Puryear, was pitching a science-fiction series […]
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Learning how to end a story effectively is even more important than learning how to start it. Both the beginning and end of a work of fiction greatly impact a reader’s level of satisfaction. If the start of your story is weak or unengaging you run the risk of people putting down your book before […]
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Asking “What is good writing?” sounds a little like the start of an unsolvable riddle. After all, one person’s definition of good writing would be the kind of prose that would repel another reader. Just look at the popularity of authors like Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown. While a lot of readers and writers heavily […]
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Are you running low on writing motivation? It happens to the best of us, so no judgment here! In fact, if you didn’t feel ebbs and flows in your desire to write, you wouldn’t be human. The important thing is to recognize your lack of motivation, refuse to dwell on it, and seek a solution […]
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One of the hardest parts of blogging (next to actually writing the posts, of course) is coming up with topics for content on a regular basis. It’s easy to come up with the first handful of blog post ideas, but then all of a sudden, motivation starts to disappear and coming up with them gets […]
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