Covid 19 Has Changed Blogging — Maybe ForeverCan you leverage the opportunity?Photo by Wouter on Unsplash Around 30 years ago, 900 million fewer people traveled abroad. That number repeated itself in 2020 since the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic demanded the imposition of worldwide travel restrictions. To further illuminate the impact, the fashion industry witnessed a drop of 93% […]
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Soooo… you’ve been writing for a while. Maybe you seriously got into writing fiction a year ago; maybe you’ve been a freelance writer for three or four years now. Maybe you started writing a book and it didn’t go anywhere. You know you want to improve your writing, but you don’t know HOW. What do […]
Continue readingAfter a five-year stint as an employee, I went full-time as a freelance writer in January 2020. I’d been laid off from a short-lived job in December, so I scurried to find work and took any assignments I was offered. I made enough to make a living in the first few months, but it was […]
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Brooke Shields started working as a model when she was 11 months old. Her mother was a socialite, actress and model and her father was a business man and the family lived in New York City. Her father’s family originally paid her mother to have an abortion, but her mom kept the money and had […]
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TL;DR: Refresh your writing skills from home with the ProWritingAid Lifetime Subscription Bundle, on sale for $199 as of June 4. r Being a good writer is so much more than knowing basic communication skills. Things like syntax, tone, and grammar have a real impact on how your words land with an audience — and […]
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The “staircase murder” is widely considered one of the most bizarre and puzzling murder mysteries of all time. Background Michael Peterson was a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps who lied about having received various military honors while running for mayor of Durham, NC in 1999. Peterson wrote three novels about the Vietnam war […]
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These days, when cameras are everywhere, from our phones to security cams in public spaces, it’s easy to forget that the major part of history has passed without them. Only in 1888, when Kodak released the first commercial camera, did they slowly begin permeating our lives. But long before thousands of snaps on our camera […]
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Ed and Lorraine Warren are a fascinating couple if you’re into the macabre. The self-professed Catholics created the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) in 1952 and spent their lives investigating paranormal phenomena. Ed Warren styled himself as a “demonologist” despite never having gone to seminary (he went to art school). Lorraine Warren claimed […]
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If you’re a math geek, you should use an intelligent pickup line. Sweep your crush off their feet by showing them how knowledgeable you really are. Of course, you might as well show them your funny side, too. Here are the best math pick up lines to share with your crush. It will either make […]
Continue readingWriting is not always a solo act. When you work in the sphere of digital marketing, writers often work closely with designers to bring websites, pamphlets, ebooks and graphics to life. The most skilled writers within digital marketing must enter every project with design in mind. That means carefully structuring your copy, considering how text […]
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