Category Archives for Writing
Stop Comparing, Start Writing — How to Become a Real Writer
“He thinks you just need to get a job.”
My brow furrowed while I took a quick, defensive inhale of breath. I’d been sitting across the table from my aunt on a hazy, summer afternoon, discussing my career path and where it might lead over lemonade and paninis.
She mentioned that my uncle, apparently, thought I was unemployed.
“But… I’m not…,” I stammered, nearly choking on my swallow of sandwich.
“Ohhhh yes, yes, I know. You do that blogging,” she zipped back, tapping her fingers in the air on an imaginary keyboard.
My eyes swiveled downward, a millisecond-long “Is it worth it to bother explaining/correcting?” internal debate raging my head, and I decided that I would not spend the afternoon teasing out the semantics of my job description.
9 Creative Ways to Write About Your Products
Don’t let the way you write about your products descend into a mediocre jargon-fest — put some life and soul into your writing by getting creative.
Unleash your inner word artist and write about your products like Shakespeare wrote about his lovers. Dance, play, evoke, tease — use everything within your powers to get customers genuinely excited about what you’re selling.
A blah product description will leave customers unimpressed, and a badly formulated press release will burn bridges with journalists. Here are 9 creative ways you can spice up your product descriptions or blog posts — banish boring boilerplate copy and start writing like you’ve actually got something to say.
You Are Not What You Wrote Once — How to Write Online With Confidence
My alter ego would definitely be a detective.
Blame my childhood addiction to Encyclopedia Brown and Mary-Kate and Ashley whodunits, or my fervent viewing of Harriet the Spy and Inspector Gadget shows. (Not to mention my Nancy Drew computer game hobby. I one hundred percent definitely do not still play on junior detective mode.)
Something about sleuthing around with a notepad watching people spoke to my quiet-yet-irreverent self (in college, I would become a journalism major, and leave the crime-solving to the people with real badges).
So as a young lass of 13, with nothing but time on my hands after school and the luxury of parent-paid cable TV, naturally I became obsessed with the MTV show Room Raiders.
Let me explain.
You Have to Crawl Before You Walk: From Brainstorming to the Final Draft
“C’mon, little guy, you can do it! Go ahead, sweetie, you can let go of my hand. Mommy’s right here if you need me. Ahhhhhh, there he goes! Yayyyyyy!”
Oh, the lovely sounds of a parent coaxing along a baby’s attempt to take their first steps. It’s such an exciting moment in a parent’s life. It seems like it takes forever for babies to get from doing little movements while lying on their belly (or tummy time), to rocking back and forth and bouncing on all fours, to crawling, to walking while holding your hands, to cautiously taking those first adorable steps.
The path that writers follow during their writing process is just like a baby’s development. The process of writing an article or a book is very similar to how a baby learns how to walk and talk.