WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Learning from Funny Women
Welcome back from the weekend! I am distraught. As an editor, sure, maybe (maybe) certain errors upset me more than others. And sure, certain errors might upset me more than they should at all. But this Slate article about American punctuation with quotation marks is making me squirm. I say, “I don’t like this one […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Best and Worst of Blogging
Welcome back from the weekend! What I am going to talk about today is … how not to start blog posts incredibly boringly. (Step one: Don’t say “What I am going to talk about today is ….) People have short attention spans. People on the Internet have even shorter ones. If you don’t start off […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Jimmy Dugan Supports Content Marketing
Welcome back from the weekend! “Is content marketing worth the effort?” asks Copyblogger. And as this directly pertains to the nature of WriterAccess’ business, I eagerly anticipated the answer. And of course, the answer is “Yes”— but Copyblogger added some kick-in-the-pants knowledge to make sure you get it. As the great, fictional Jimmy Dugan once […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Blogs with Friends
Welcome back from the weekend! Last week, CopyBlogger dropped some blog-writing knowledge, Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles–style. The immortal artists of the Renaissance (and those Turtles) can teach us a thing or two about creating epic and prolific content— like by “freeing your angels” as did Michelangelo. My only question is: Is Donatello not […]
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 […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: For Readers Who Read
Welcome back from the weekend! BUY THIS! IT’S GREAT! WE’RE GREAT! YOU NEED IT! BUY IT! Isn’t that just an atrocious way to be assaulted on a Monday morning? Apologies, but it just goes to prove the point people over at For Bloggers, By Bloggers are making about why certain blogs aren’t pulling in any […]
Want others to link to your blog?: My link building strategy
Motivations behind creating a blog differ among writers. Some write as they would in a journal, as a way to express their feelings in a contemplative way for themselves. Others hope to entertain or inform the masses with new or original ideas. Still some hope that one day, just maybe, a Hollywood executive will stumble […]