Tag: writing
4 Ways to Make Money While Writing
I’ve spent a lot of my adult life fretting about jobs, having job openings called to my attention, feeling a reflexive jolt of recognition at the sight of any “Help Wanted” sign. I’ve often felt I was re-inventing the wheel and constantly redefining what I wanted to be when IRead More
5 Secrets to Awesome New Blog Posts
Blogging is a legitimate descendant of journalism. In some cases, you are chronicling the events and trends of your world for your readers, and, in others, adding your opinions. In other instances, you are offering advice and a place to share opinions, insights, and help. The major difference between youRead More
How to Write Faster: 7 Tips
To know how to write faster is something that almost everyone needs. Who hasn’t had to compose a report for the boss in record time? Gotten frustrated with the amount of time that it took to pound out a simple blog post? Realized that their hourly rate for a projectRead More
How to Increase Your Productivity by 500%
Editor’s Note: There’s a Bulgarian Translation of this article here. You see, we have all these tips around us that can dramatically increase our productivity, but we fail to incorporate them into our life. I have heard some of these tips over and over again. I dismissed them and neverRead More
How to Deal with Organizational Change
As a professional writer, I value the input of editors whom I trust. When I get a good editor who knows my work, I usually do my best to keep him or her happy. I try to build a great professional relationship with my editors, and I do my bestRead More
QuietWrite: A Distraction-Free Web-Based Writing Tool
Someone said that writing on the web successfully is 5% talent and 95% not getting distracted. I would probably change that 95% to 97% because being a web writer for almost 3 years now, I know how true that statement is. Why do you think distraction-free writing tools are soRead More
The Proper Way to Write a Business Letter
Even in this world of Twitter, email, and Facebook updates, you’d be remiss to think that the standard rules for composing a business letter have gone the way of the carrier pigeon. A properly formatted business letter not only shows off your level of professionalism, it also shows character, tact,Read More