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How Getting Your Writing Rejected Can Be Good For You In the Long Run
Raise your hand if you like rejection.
I’m willing to bet that most of you reading this article did not raise your hand. In fact, I’m sure that a lot of you try to avoid getting rejected at all cost.
Rejection can be a painful experience. However, contrary to what the world may tell you, rejection can actually be a good thing for writers. In can be a necessary experience to make writers more successful in the long run. Here’s why…
Quotations and Citations: What Academic Writing Teaches Us About Online Content Creation
Writing is writing, right?
Nope. If you’re a writer, you know that what type of writing you’re doing matters. And it’s not just AP versus Chicago; it’s structure and style and voice.
Here at Craft Your Content, we’re all about finding ways to help your true voice shine through as you create great content. It’s a cardinal rule of ours: instead of the “right way to do things,” there’s the right way to do things for each of our clients.
Language should be flexible. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some basic tenets of writing to follow. We can create better content by following a few rules from the academic world.
Being a Digital Home-ad — Pros and Cons of the Quiet Life
The joys of being a digital nomad aren’t always all they’re cracked up to be.
Just as many people post pictures on Facebook that try and project an ideal life (no one really stops to take photos during horrible arguments, despairing money moments, or bedridden existential crises, do they?), so too do we often hold an ideal image of what working life outside of the nine-to-five will look like.
How Procrastination is Actually Part of Your Writing Process
Confession time: I totally procrastinated while writing this article (I know, the irony in the air is thick right now).
What might come as a surprise to you, though, is that I consciously chose to procrastinate.
I listened to podcasts. I read Amy Poehler’s Yes, Please. I took a nap (or three). I went out with friends. I did all these things while my deadline for the first draft of this article grew closer and closer, each minute ticking by. But I didn’t get mad at myself for not getting started. I didn’t even think about how I wasn’t writing my article.
When you’re in tune with your own writing process, you understand how procrastinating can actually be a part of your process, just as much as brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, and proofreading are all steps in the writing process.