Category Archives for Writing
What You Can Learn from The Elements of Style
When I first started on my writing journey, my mentor offered me a few books on writing. One of them was this tiny gray book I’d never heard of before: The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White. When my mentor handed it to me, he warned me that it could be pretty dense.
The Elements of Style is a book with a certain … notoriety. Do your own quick Google search, and you’ll find no end to people who hold it up as a holy text of the craft and just as many who admonish it as an abomination.
As it is with many things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. But whether you’ve never heard of the book before or you already have a strong opinion about it, here are four lessons every writer can learn from this little gray book.
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What You Need To Know About Online Writing Courses Before You Jump In
Online writing is already a booming business, and so many writers are making a lot of money from it. Be it freelance content writing, copywriting, blogging, or creating e-books, everyone seems to want a piece of it. But if you are new to online writing, you may wonder where to start and how to reap its benefits.
Looking for advice, you would most probably ask someone who is already making money from writing—either an old friend or a renowned writer on social media. Writer friends or colleagues have many ways of telling one how to become a writer, including what courses to take.
However, they won’t tell you whether the courses they suggest are useful to you and your writing aspirations. It’s up to you to figure out what course will help you launch your online writing career. But with a myriad of online writing courses popping up every day, the fear of analysis paralysis is always present.
So how do you choose a writing course that is best for you?
That is the question this post will answer. I will offer you all you need to know so that you don’t waste money on a course that will not deliver value.
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9 Tricks That Can Boost Your Writing Speed
If you’re searching for ways to boost your writing speed without sacrificing quality, you are in the right place.
Writing speed varies widely among writers, regardless of their level of expertise or years of experience. And what one writer may describe as fast may be considered slow by another.
Apart from that, some writers believe you must write slowly to create high-quality content—while many others disagree.
You are the only one who can decide whether your writing speed is slow, fast, or just OK. And you must do this by taking your unique situation, the type of writing project you’re working on, and your deadlines into consideration.
But guess what?
No matter the type of writing you do, it’s possible to increase your writing speed without lowering your writing quality and also enjoy a lot of other benefits such as:
- Reducing the risk of procrastination.
- Speeding up your thinking process.
- Having more time for other areas of your life.
- Making more money if you write for a living.
- Increasing your productivity to become a prolific writer.
Ready to write outstanding content at a faster rate?
Then check out these nine tricks that can boost your writing speed without reducing the quality of your writing.
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Use Wordplay To Add More Flair to Your Writing
You have just finished writing a literary masterpiece (if you don’t mind saying so yourself), but you can’t help but feel like there’s something missing. You reread it over and over again, countless times. All of the points you wanted to make are there; the flow makes sense, but it still doesn’t feel right.
Maybe the content itself isn’t the problem. The writing just doesn’t have that oomph or pop that you are looking for. Instead, it just lays flat.
Writing, as you know, isn’t only about coming up with plotlines or new and exciting twists that excite your reader at every turn. It’s more than that. Writing involves a certain flair that flows through not only the content but also through every sentence and every word.
An effective way to add that flair to any literary work is by using wordplay.
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