Plenty of people start blogging with the hope of making some money off their expertise. But it can be difficult to turn a profit on blogging: until you’ve built up a significant readership, you can ex...Full Article
Finding the ideal working habits that will allow me to write as consistently as possible is always something I’m exploring as a writer.As I’ve said before, I try to make it a habit to write first thin...Full Article
The written word is a part of every day life. At its most basic, writing is a way of communicating. This is the one inalienable characteristic of writing itself, whether you’re communicating with a co...Full Article
It seems like all of us have intensive writing projects going on at any given time. Considering how much creative power such a project can require, it just makes sense to minimize the efforts we have ...Full Article
Ever wonder where journalists and other writers find the experts they quote in their stories? In the past, reporters counted on their own networking, and on a service called ProfNet. ProfNet lets jour...Full Article
I will nurture them for as long as I can, and then trust that the world will take over from there.— Michelle Mayer The hundreds of herbal and vitamin concoctions promising to boost immunity and fight ...Full Article
The keeping of a personal journal has been a pursuit of human society for many hundreds of years. In times past men and women of learning, studiously kept a record of their days, their achievements an...Full Article
There are so many ways that allow authors and writers to put their work online now that it seems we have entered a whole new era in self expression. Even folks who many not have even ever considered w...Full Article
Before I attempted to write this issue, I was sitting at my desk at work board out of my skull. I sat there with a notebook in front of me pen at the ready. You see, we had no work to do. Normally whe...Full Article
Early on in my writing career, I took on a couple of articles covering project management. To put it mildly, I didn’t know a Gantt chart from a PERT chart. Worse, I didn’t even know where to start. I ...Full Article
Me. Me, MeWriting is a never-ending challenge and especially writing about oneself. I find it much harder than creating characters from ones imagination.With her imagination a writer can control the c...Full Article
I’ve written about editing, eliminating distractions, getting started – it’s time to get down to basics. Too many people don’t know how to write. Period. Yeah, they can make marks on paper, but when i...Full Article
Last time we looked at saving time on routine tasks, we found a few ways to optimize our reading process. Today, we’re covering the opposite side of the same coin with optimized writing. Technically, ...Full Article
The key to engaging your audience is keeping your focus. The first thing you want to do when you start a new article is focus on your topic until you have a very specific set of keywords to focus on.T...Full Article
Chances are, if you’re a blogger, you’ve heard about Microsoft’s free blogging tool, Windows Live Writer (WLW). In case you haven’t heard about it, WLW is an offline WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You ...Full Article
The ability to write without errors is crucial, whether you are writing for the whole world to see, or just your department. Even a few typos can make a writer look beyond unprofessional — errors impl...Full Article
Writing well is easily one of the most sought-after and useful skills in the business world. Ironically, it is one of the rarest and most undervalued skills among students, and few professors have the...Full Article
I can’t tell you how many truly awful letters I’ve had to read in my life. As a former {$UploadDir}istrative assistant, I was responsible for all the unsolicited submissions to a major New York museum...Full Article
Did you say you were going to start writing that book this year? If you’re looking for a way to honor your word(s) and put your writing life in action, starting a writing critique group will catapult ...Full Article
If you do a lot of writing, you already know the benefits of a distraction-free writing environment. It’s hard to keep yourself on-task when there are noise, people interrupting you, or the ever-prese...Full Article
