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How Med School Students Can Write the Perfect Resume

by Grammar Chic, Inc. Source link Whether you’re midway through your medical training or are nearing the end of it, you’ve probably got one eye cast toward the job market—and as such, you know that healthcare jobs are as competitive as ever. The best way to get a leg up is to write a resumes

5 Tasks Every Food Blogger Should Outsource to a VA

by diannejacob Source link A guest post by Maggie Zhu If you are working nonstop and feeling overwhelmed, maybe it’s time to outsource to a VA or virtual assistant. Doing so helps you focus on the most important work and grow your businesse. A VA is a member of your team, performing work remotely. Whether you’res

Internalize the Audience

by JW Source link Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom and the introduction of a sudden heightening or surprise. To be a good storyteller you need to have first internalized the audience: that subvocal groan that says, “Okay, okay, get on with it.” Not that you always have to caters

How to Develop Better Writing Habits

by Melissa Donovan Source link Develop better writing habits. There’s only one way to become a better writer, and that is through lots of practice. Some people are born with talent. Writing comes easily to them, but even the most talented writers have to work at the craft. After all, nobody’s born knowing how tos

Writing Your First Novel: How to Fix an (Accidentally) Autobiographical Novel

by Sarah Gribble Source link Some of you may be participating in our 100 Day Book program, writing your first novel on your own, or kicking around the idea of starting that manuscript. Writing your first novel is hard. It’s a struggle. It’s a learning process. And it’s often autobiographical, even if you don’t means

New Indie Book Release: Coming Unraveled (Renee Harless)

by Alan Kealey Source link New Indie Book Release: Coming Unraveled (Welcome to Carson) – Renee Harless Contemporary Romance (275 Pages – April 2018) Coming Unraveled’s story takes place in the small town of Carson, North…

3 False Beliefs about Conversational Copywriting that Make Me Want to Scream

by Nick Usborne Source link Before I get into what makes me scream, shout, and reach for hard objects to throw, let me be clear about my definition of “conversational copywriting.” It’s a way of writing sales copy that sounds like one friend enthusiastically selling something to another friend. Conversational copywriting is still about sellings

SILK THREAD by Susan Coleman

by Courtney Harler Source link Bronagh, which means “sadness” in the Gaelic, became a Redfern when she married my Da two weeks after her seventeenth birthday and that day she was dressed in her mother’s own wedding gown.

Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone

by John Staughton Source link What dark places can a mind go when it is left alone in a world that is falling apart? This is a core question of Paradise Girl, a soulful and innovative work of YA post-apocalyptic fiction by Phill Featherstone. This work is an intensely personal book detailing the inner thoughtss

Showing vs telling: ‘Show don’t tell’ in narration

by Jordan Source link Show don’t tell is one of the most abused pieces of writing advice. In her essay ‘On Rules of Writing,’ Ursula K. Le Guin writes ‘Thanks to “show don’t tell,” I find writers in my workshops who think exposition is wicked. They’re afraid to describe the world they’ve invented.’ Although boths