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5 Ways to Connect to Your Audience in a Blog
How to Connect to Your Audience When Writing To learn how to connect to your audience when writing, you have to study the elements involved. The simple trick is a technique that's as old as storytelling, yet as relevant today as the latest Oscar winners and the most...
How to Get Started Working in the Gig Economy
The Shift Away from Nine-to-Five Employment Even if you've never heard of the "gig economy," you probably leave your home to go to work every day. A gig economy refers to the recent employment phenomenon of freelance/independent contractor work that encompasses...
Lose Those Carpal Tunnel Blues
How to Protect Your Wrists & Hands from Harm Writers and editors spend much of their days at the keyboard, so they're prone to carpal tunnel syndrome. A devastating medical condition, carpal tunnel syndrome keeps you from typing — and therefore from working — for...
What’s the Difference Between Good Content and Bad Content?
What Makes Good Website Content Effective? Consider: does this question keep you up at night? Do you wonder how your website content measures up? We've written about this topic before in What Is Good Content? But that article was more like a hands-on how-to with...
Nutrition for Writers
Brain Food Helps Fuel Your Creative Juices Every day, we're bombarded with advice about what we need to put in our bodies to become: A better athlete A more efficient worker Safe from outside influences A growing teen An aging senior A healthy middle-aged anybody But...
What to Look for in a Web Agency
The Best Web Agencies in 2018 Fit Your Needs When it comes to your website, turn to a professional. It doesn't matter if you need help building your website, revamping your site or improving your internet presence. But unless you're in the web development industry,...
Writing for Fun and Profit
Consider Both When You're Writing for Fun Whether you're writing for fun or writing for profit, following the same simple principles helps you go further in your literary endeavors. All writing should be designed to be read. It doesn't matter whether you're: Writing...
How to Become an Editor (Part 3)
The Nuts and Bolts, Tips and Tricks of Editing See Part 1 of this series to understand why editing plays such a vital role in the writing process. Good writing, after all, is basically good editing - even though editors get so little of the glory. See Part 2 of this...
How to Become an Editor (Part 2)
Three Ways to Help Writers Hit Their Messages Read Part 1 of this series, if you haven't already, to catch up on a few of the reasons it may be difficult to find a direct path to becoming an editor. Part 2 covers the different kinds of talents you need to become an...
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