Essential Blogging Question: How Can You Help Your Readers Today?
Help others and it will come back to you.
By Leo Babauta
When you sit down to write a blog post, the question posed in this headline should be the one question you’re asking yourself. How can I help my readers today?
This might seem obvious to some, but it’s not really apparent to many bloggers. I [...]
How Blogging Led to a Career Without Limits
A guest post from Sean Platt of Writer Dad
As a professional writer, my job is to saturate my days with words and ideas, filling screen or page with sentences designed to inspire. When I first started blogging I actually wondered how I would possibly manage to produce a fresh topic every day of the week. [...]
How Planned Disconnectors Create Powerful Articles
Cartoon by Sean DSouza
A guest post by Sean DSouza of Psychotactics
Imagine you were reading a mystery novel. You’ve just finished five pages. The story line is becoming really interesting.
And then you turn the page
And find the sixth page has been torn out. Now that’s really irritating, eh?
But let’s suppose [...]
How to Become a Successful Copywriter with “Bad” Writing
By guest writer Dean Rieck of Direct Creative Blog.
Your English teachers taught you all the rules of proper grammar, punctuation, and style. But what they didn’t realize is that all those rules could crush your chances of making a living writing marketing materials, ads, and other commercial copy.
Why? Because copywriting is not about [...]
How to Strengthen Your Writing by Taking a Tough Stand
Photo courtesy of goooder
By Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Nonconformity
Have you ever heard the story of the one-armed economist? President Harry Truman famously requested such a person, because he was tired of all his economic advisors immediately following their opinions with the qualification, “Well, on the other hand…”
When writing for a broad audience, it [...]
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