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February 23, 2018
Does Your Content Marketing Team Play Well with Others?
by Grammar Chic, Inc. Source link Effective marketing requires a multi-channel approach. Content creation can be one channel—in fact, we’d argue that it’s the cornerstone of any effective marketing endeavor—but even high-quality content won’t do you much good if it’s never discovered, consumed, and acted upon. So how do you deploy content effectively? Again, theres
Most Critical Writing is Drivel
by JW Source link Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. RAYMOND CHANDLER
Style Guides: Essential Writing Resources for Professionals
by Melissa Donovan Source link A style guide is an essential writing resource. When we’re writing, we run into a lot of technical issues. Where do the quotation marks go? When is it correct to use a comma? How should titles be formatted? Some of these questions are answered by the rules of grammar, spelling,s
How to Actually Focus on Your Writing
by Sue Weems Source link Many writers I know are overwhelmed and struggle to focus on writing anything. Do I research? Get a draft down? Should I be blogging? Do I need to get a business license? What about social media? What’s for dinner? (Sorry, my kids added that one). A few years ago, Is
How the Internet Archive Infringed My Copyrights and Then (Kind Of) Blew Me Off
by noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Strauss) Source link Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last month, I wrote about the Internet Archive’s Open Library project, which has been scanning donated print books, creating PDFs and EPUBs from the scans, and placing the scans and the digitized versions online for public borrowing–all without seeking permission from authors.Althoughs
February 22, 2018
Get Rid of Writer’s Block for Good
by Sonia Simone Source link Hey there! This week, Copyblogger combated that terrible, horrible, no good, very bad curse that can plague writers: writer’s block. Some people don’t believe in it — but if you’ve wrestled with it, that probably isn’t too comforting. We’ve assembled proven ways to prevent writer’s block or blast through its
Celtic Issue Update
by Courtney Harler Source link Chicago Literati is accepting submissions for our next feature issue until March 1, 2018. Our guest editor, Courtney Harler, is particularly intersted in the ways in which Celtic culture is represented in contemporary society. Think of Outlander or Poldark, both the books and the television adaptations. Think of festivals yous
How to write complex, multi-dimensional villains
by WW Office Source link Guest author and blogger Haydn Middleton has nearly 40 years of successful writing experience, with seven fantasy novels as well as over a hundred historical children’s books to his name. This post focuses a character construction issue that Haydn sees in many manuscripts he … Continue reading →
Gift From Above by Frank Cardinale
by Marta Cheng Source link A compelling message and two well-drawn protagonists make Frank Cardinale’s Gift From Above a unique work of science fiction. Andy Milton has managed to land himself a dream job working for Londra Aeronautical Engineering. At the helm of Londra is CEO Wally Smith, Andy’s idol.…
Foreshadowing examples: How to tease plot developments
by Jordan Source link Foreshadowing – a ‘warning or indication of a future event’ – is a useful device in storytelling. Hinting at what will happen serves multiple purposes (such as building tension and suspense). Read foreshadowing examples showing how to tease approaching plot developments: First, a definition: What is foreshadowing? As stated above, foreshadowings
