Updated March 2022 How many times each day do you check your email? Five? 10? More than that? If you’re tuned in to your inbox all the time, you know how powerful email is — even after all these years — for connecting people around the globe. And if you’re not reaching out to your readers via […]
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It doesn’t have to be elegantCourtesy of Valeriia Sviridova on Canva Writing a novel is hard. The art of prose can seem like a mystery if you don’t know where to begin. Once I got over the hurdle of thinking my prose had to be elegant, it made things a lot easier. As a copywriter, it sometimes […]
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This Week In Writing, we look at how to get your first 100 followers and start building an audience of dedicated readers.Photo by davide ragusa on Unsplash One of the most frequent questions asked in our Fall Community Survey was, “how do I get my first 100 followers?” The number is significant because that is now […]
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This Week In Writing, we celebrate National Entrepreneurs Day and explore how all writers are small businesses.Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash My college degree is in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. The program was a small specialty within the College of Business. There were about 30 students in the program. None of us could spell […]
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After all, if a stat says “it’s so”, then it MUST be so. Right?Photo by Mary Markevich via Freepik If you’ve read the stat in the headline and thought “Hang on a minute, I DO care about sources being provided! That stat sounds fishy” — you’re right (congratulations, your “that-sounds-fishy” radar is working beautifully!). But here’s the thing (and […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Don’t “adapt” other people’s workPhoto by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash; Edited by the author The other day a prospective client approached me with an opportunity. They wanted an article writer to “adapt” content from other published blogs. “We provide the source material,” the client said. “You just adapt and submit for our blog.” […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Consider launching a newsletter to better connect with your audiencePhoto by Mathyas Kurmann on Unsplash; Edited by the author Today’s newsletter is a bit meta since we’re talking about, well, newsletters. I write and send out two newsletters a week, This Week In Writing and Eat Your Words. Each one is a joy […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Explore all options when considering where and how to publish your writing.Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash; Edited by the author World Book Day was last Friday. Created by the United Nations, the annual celebration of books falls on April 23. It’s an ode to writers, books, and international copyrights. Yeah. It’s a […]
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Your online portfolio is the portal through which both clients and readers learn about you and your work — and one of the best ways to land writing jobs. That means that, for many of us, creating a writer website is hugely intimidating. I put off creating a writer website for months simply because I […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Learn how to leverage Twitter to market your writing and build your audience.Photo by Chris J. Davis on Unsplash; Edited by the Author When anyone asks what my favorite social platform is (outside of Medium, of course!), I answer with Twitter. Sure, Twitter has received its fair share of bad press lately, […]
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