WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Reading, Writing, and Rocking
Welcome back from the weekend! I am really bad at titles. I’ll admit that. Sometimes I spend longer trying to think of an effective, creative, thoughtful title than I do creating the content itself. (And yeah, sure sometimes I just throw something on there.) Instead of giving us some awesome formulae for creating exceptional titles […]
Jimmy Buffett Says Challenge The Common Opinion and Blog Your Heart
Let’s be honest, most of us have written blog content for quite a while. It’s a great way to hone our writing abilities while also building a following that may help vault us to the next level in our careers. So how do we create quality blog writing without getting lost in the sea of […]
My Ultimate Guest Blog Post List: Part II
A guest blogger can provide you with time to rejuvenate your creative flow—or just rejuvenate. Removing the constant pressure to come up with something fresh for even one day can jumpstart the imagination and offers other obvious benefits. Having a well-known personality guest blog can drive traffic to your site; an industry expert can provide […]
WriterAccess Guest Weekly Round-up: Horror Stories and Putrid Colors
With Caitlin on vacation, Ryn G, one of the WriterAccess community’s many top-notch writers, has stepped in on her weekly Round-up to guest post. There is no better way to kick off a Monday than with a few good horror stories, and this week’s weekly Round-up certainly has more than a few. Horror stories always […]
What We Can Learn From Groupon About Quality Writers
How many times have you looked at a website and were underwhelmed by the copy? Straightforward, unemotional copy may be the backbone of copywriting, but it often doesn’t leave a lasting impression. There are plenty of websites that offer discounted deals online, and most of them concentrate on communicating clearly and without offending anyone who […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Blogs Gone Bananas
Welcome back from the weekend! We were halfway to Barstow on the edge of the desert when—well, you know the rest. Am I mentioning this legendary opening line of Hunter S. Thompson’s infamous book because I’m headed to Sin City myself this week? It wouldn’t be out of the question, but ProBlogger seems to have […]
Is Content Rewriting Merely Another Method of Article Spinning?
Reflect on the similarities between content rewriting and article spinning. Both emulate original source materials. Both clone existing ideas. Both are common practices applied to the creation of Internet content. Either approach can produce worthless information. Perhaps you disagree with these points of similarity. Perhaps you conceive a vast difference between article spinning and content […]
Buy My Product!: How to Compose Effective, Compelling Product Descriptions
You have a great product, and you know it is going to sell. All you have to do is string a couple of sentences next to your product and—bam!—you have made a sale. Right? Wrong. Effectively creating a compelling product description seems like a simple task even to the experienced writer. You sit down to […]
Beyond the Blog: Innovative Ways to Introduce Quality Content
Experienced writers wants to do their best to create quality content, whether they are creating a blog or some other kind of web content. A blog needs to do more than just provide information; it needs to truly be a content asset and provide something both the potential reader and the customer can expand on […]
The Acting Side of Writing
There has been much said at one time or another about a writer’s “voice.” You know, the way that a writer “speaks” on paper, finding their own way to express themselves, show their colors and come across in their unique way to their audience. We all need that special voice to make us stand out […]
Looking for Your Voice: How To Excel at Writing Like Yourself
As a writer, there are times when my words ooze out naturally onto the paper; other times they are unavailable. When that happens, my initial response is frustration, but inevitably that only turns into moderate writer’s block. Indeed, there have been times when I felt tempted to throw in the towel. From years of research, […]
20 Never-Fail Strategies for Generating Blog Topics
Being a freelance blogger certainly has its perks right? Just imagine; some of the best blogs on the net are created by a guy or gal stretched out on their couch in jammies’, laptop perched upon kneecaps, while favored tunes are playing nearby. Indeed, to those mired in the day-to-day grind of work outside their […]