WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Community, Vacation, and Cupcakes
Welcome back from the weekend! First off, I want to thank Ryn G for her stellar fill-in guest post while I was away on vacation. She did an excellent job, and she introduced me to some great new sites to look at for blogging and content marketing articles—some of which I’ll be using today! I […]
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 […]
Wipe Up the Tears: Coping With Rejection as a Writer
Rejection is part of being an experienced writer. Quality content, such as children’s books, non-fiction novels, short stories, poetry and Internet articles are rejected every day. Sometimes rejection letters or rewrite requests come as a blanket email with no personalization; lacking feeling or explanation, but other rejection letters or rewrite requests offer insight in the […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Non-Bruins Related Links
Welcome back from the weekend! Well. There has been a bit of hubbub here in The Hub. (Our offices are beautifully located in the Italian North End of Boston.) You see, we have been dealing with the aftermath of this whole thing. Parties, celebrations, parades—the whole shebang. And boy are we out of sorts and […]
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 […]
Shot Through the Heart: The Power of Bullet Points
Using bullet points may be one of the most important tools of quality content writing. A well thought-out bullet point can make your customers buy, increase your SEO and entice your readers to read more. Bullet points: Are psychologically appealing to both men and women and that = money. Are great places for adding links and […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: What do Dr. Seuss and Groupon Have in Common?
Welcome back from the (non-long) weekend! I have one important word for writers this week: Trampoline. Finally. Finally Fuel Your Writing has found a reason for me, as a writer and editor, to get that one beautiful piece of equipment dreams that I have been asking Santa for since I learned how to say the […]
My Ultimate Guest Blog List
You’ve probably heard the question before: If you could invite any person to dinner, dead or alive, who would it be? Just think of all the questions you could ask, the information you could learn, and the discussions you would have! Guest blogging is not much different from this concept. Imagine having the ability to […]
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 […]
Active Voice: Every Writer’s Secret Weapon
The most engaging storyteller I ever heard only spoke to friends in a lounge I once visited. He spoke about nothing of great significance or social relevance, just personal chat. I recognized him as a prominent local author. An aspiring writer myself, I futilely tried identifying what secret storytelling weapon demanded my attention when he […]
How to Market Yourself as a Writer
Marketing yourself as a writer is perhaps one of the hardest parts of being a freelance writer. Rejection is hard, and nobody likes to hear the word no. The fear of that simple word is enough to make many writers entertain second thoughts about submitting a resume or a writing sample. Freelance writing is your […]
Being the Best Freelance Writer
Being a freelance writer is a great job and it gives you a lot of flexibility. It pays greats but in order to make a career out of it you need to be the best possible writer you can be and that can be achieved by a couple easy steps: write what you know, write […]