Posts Tagged ‘writing advice’
You can read Write Like You Talk Only Better on an iPad, Kobo, Sony and other readers. Check it out. Would-be authors, stay tuned for a post about the joys of publishing with Smashwords.
My post on alternatives to that weary word awesome was featured in today’s most-popular edition of Ragan Daily Headlines. This holiday is getting more awesome, I mean amazing, all the time. Enjoy it again.
People keep using this word when they’re too lazy to think of a more original one or want to look cool. Learn some alternatives or share some of your own.
Join the movement against punctuation overuse and abuse. Here’s how.
Storytelling is hot, but too many people start at the beginning, leave out the messy parts and fail to tap into the magic. Try this instead.
Forget all those rules you learned at school. Take aim at the big ones that still matter.
Spellcheck can’t help if you confuse two words with similar sounds but different spellings. Here are the big ones to avoid.
People get so hung up on debating irrelevant rules such as serial commas that they forget the whole point of writing is to understand each other. My rant.
Now that you click away on your computer so much of the day, you had better learn to love writing. Here’s how.
How I jazzed up my Linkedin profile, though it’s still a work in progress. Tips from Madonna you can apply too.












