May 26, 2013

Recipes for Great Writing and Why I Feel Like a Rockstar

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When Ann Tran – yes, the Ann Tran – asked me to share my thoughts about the ingredients that make up a great blog post, I had to clutch my electronic devices tighter than ever. She planned to ask several top freelance writers and bloggers about their recipe for making a winning blog post. Needless [...]

Successful Writers Always Write About Love

Successful writers write about love -- with love.

It’s absolutely true, successful writers write about love. I will even go one step further with this proclamation: successful writers only write about love. Before you blurt out (at the top of your lungs) a proclamation about how wrong I am, or a laundry list of countless other ways to write to disprove my obviously [...]

Is Your Writing Tone Deaf? Listen like Jagger

Carefully choose your tone and wild horses can't drag readers away.

Watch your tone…We’re writing to you! I don’t like your tone. Tone it down! We’ve all had someone –a piano teacher, big sister, defensive driving instructor–admonish us, hands-on-hips, with one of these phrases.  Sure, you probably deserved it.  After all, you’d just popped off (with a tone, no less) to someone in a position of authority. [...]

5 Ways to Liven Up Your Writing This Year

Has your prose become a snooze fest?

Have your prose gotten a little stale? It happens to the best of us.  The New Year presents the perfect opportunity for a writing tune-up.  By implementing some inspiring new activities into your routine, your writing can go from dull to delightful in no time. Read Widely We all know that, as writers, we need [...]

Do Words Flow Through You and Onto the Page?

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  Do your words flow through you, and out onto the page; like the notes flow though a jazz musician and out through their instrument? In essence, do you write with passion and conviction? Ernest Hemingway said this about writing: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and [...]