When I was in college, my mom told me about a box that she kept in the back my bedroom closet. It was there the whole time I was growing up. The box was a torn, sad, brown corrugated, hardly worth … [Read more...]
You Can’t Write My Blog Post
A Bad Facsimile She came into my office and sat across the desk from me. She might have been the brightest person I ever hired. I know she is the best. We were meeting on her first lesson for a … [Read more...]
10 Sure-Fire Ways to Stop Making Writing So Hard
Why Do We Make Writing Harder Than It Needs to Be? It’s amazing how often we undercut our own progress, cause a power failure, make things hard on ourselves. We set up roadblocks and wonder why the … [Read more...]
301 Links in a Story — Chapter 6 Intrigue and Romance
[For those of you just tuning in, this is based on the 301 Lists that Darren Rowse’s List Group Writing Project brought together. You’ll find Chapter 1 here –> A List Becomes 301 Links in Story … [Read more...]
6+1, 2, 3: Save Me from Beginners and Experts NOW!
Folks Who Are Learning and Folks Who Know Most bloggers find their audience is a lot like you are — an audience of folks who learning and folks who know a whole lot. That can throw a new writer. It … [Read more...]
Introducing Bloggy Tag — I’m it, You’re it, I’m it. . . .
As we established on Monday, a meme is an idea that propagates itself. Memes (rhymes with dreams) got their name from Richard Dawkins in his book, The Selfish Gene, and are the cultural counterpart of … [Read more...]
Are You Ready to Claim the Right Things You’ve Done?
We’re Awfully Good at Debriefing Failures and Just Toasting Our Success It takes a team to achieve a major business initiative. The research, the trials, the final product, the sampling effort, … [Read more...]
Blogging in a Foreign Language?
Beyond Metaphors and Analogies You might remember back to the Metaphor Project. About that same time Jan Circular Communication, one of the winners of Lorelles’s Book, and I began a dialogue about … [Read more...]
Can’t Write? Improve Your Skill Set to Improve Your Job Security
Improving Your Writing Skills Is an Investment Straight talk on business writing is a crucial need in the 21st century. We do business with people we don’t meet. It doesn’t matter whether we work … [Read more...]
Eye-Deas 3-Photo Content Checklist
Seeing your Work Images–photos and artwork–can be used in two ways: as illustration–to extend or explain the content–or as decoration–to bring readers in and add interest to the page. Either way, … [Read more...]
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