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 […]
Writing for Facebook: Funnel from Jurassic Park
Let’s talk about dinosaurs. They went extinct. End of story, out of business. Now let’s talk business. Your business. If you want to attract new clients and customers, you have to go where they go. Forget the mall. Social media, especially Facebook, has become prime real estate. It offers crowds of foot traffic and high […]
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 […]
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 […]
Content Farms: Will The Newest Google Farmer Update Kill The Crop?
Much criticism has been thrown around on the Internet lately about content farms, and just like any type of gossip, many of the facts get left out. The recent Google update has brought many websites to a halt, and all because much of the work is not what they feel is quality content. Google is […]
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 […]
Writing Formula Advice from a Newspaper Reporter
Every writer comes across those dreaded moments when trying to compose quality content and conjures up nothing but a blank page. Having spent nearly four decades as a newspaper reporter, I needed a dependable formula that would help me create great copy every time, since I was constantly on some sort of deadline. Fortunately, the […]
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, […]