Here I am writing a blog post between sets on my phone. So what’s your excuse? Whatever your excuse, I understand, truly, no judgement. For the last twenty years, I’ve had more excuses than actual time writing. I did manage to squeak out a couple of novels, some poetry and short stories, but the real…
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Writing is the Cure for Everything
Are any of the following true for you? You: Can’t sleep at night. Feel to sick to do anything. Are currently unemployed or not working enough hours. Are suddenly bored all the time or find yourself with a lot of free time. Have been injured and can’t do much. Is writing really the cure for…
Read moreWrite What You Feel
If a tear rolls down your cheek, write about it. If you clench your fist or grind your teeth, enraged at the world, write it down. Next time you smile, smile on paper. Capturing your real emotions is so much easier than trying to invent emotions for the piece you are writing. That moment, that…
Read moreContent Ninja
A ninja is someone who is stealthy, patient, intelligent, and cunning. A good web writer is like a ninja, except we don’t usually wear cool costumes or intimidate people with sharp weapons. Here are five reasons to hire a content ninja: SEM Plan or Ninja Infiltration Scheme – a content ninja will start out with…
Read moreFree Web Writing and Editing
My old man used to tell me there is no such thing as a free lunch. Well I sure showed him when I literally won a free turkey lunch in elementary school. Even the contest was free, so it didn’t cost me anything to enter. Although not as free as a turkey lunch, for a…
Read moreFather’s Day
The cool thing about father’s day is not giving or receiving gifts. The cool thing is having great people to celebrate with. My dad and I don’t have a great relationship, but he did help me with my love for writing. Thank you dad and thank you to my wonderful wife and children for what…
Read moreWriting Tests
I’m in the middle of applying to a few different writing sites. Although many will take your portfolio into account, most of them give simple writing tests. The great thing about a writing test is that if you actually write well but don’t have a great deal of experience, you can get some good paying…
Read moreGhostwriters
Ghostwriting is evil. Now that I’ve shared my obvious bias, let me try my best to give you my impartial views on ghostwriting. Ghostwriter Defined by Son of Sappho A writer who writes anything for remuneration (usually money) without receiving the official credit for it. This means that you do the work, sell it to…
Read moreWriting Online
I often hear people saying how writing online is so drastically different from other kinds of writing. I’ll admit that online writing isn’t the same as academic writing, but despite the innovation of Twitter, the ideal article length online is around 300 to 400 words, about what you would want a newspaper article to be….
Read moreWrite Something Everyday
The greatest bit of wisdom I could share is to simply write everyday. This is advice that I need to follow too, but if you can write something everyday, anything at all, you are a writer. Write a poem, a story, a diary entry, or a tip in a writing blog about writing something everyday….
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