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Blogging is the New Black
Writing I want to start off today’s post with a little exercise. First, I want you to close your eyes… Did you do it? If you did, how long did it take you to realize that with your eyes closed you couldn’t read what came next? Stick with me here, I’m not trying to be funny or make you feel stupid. The point of the exercise is to raise some questions. Do you always believe what you read? Do you always do what you are told? As a ...
Continue readingFive Ways to Hit your Readers in the Heart
Writing Note: This post is a two-parter, the second half: Five Ways to Hit Your Reader in the Head, can be found at my blog. This is the first part of the article and will focus on affecting readers emotionally with your posts. Writers make a thousand little decisions regarding each piece we write. Whether it is a song, an op-ed piece or a blog post, there are endless paths we could take to state our case or share a story. Many of these choices are made ...
Continue readingSentence Structure: Are you Following Stale Advice?
Writing Strunk and White, in the Elements of Style, recommend that the words you would most like to emphasize ought to be left until the end of the sentence. A sort of “save the best for last” method. As bloggers, should we be following standards like these? Or are blogs, as a medium, the opportunity to create all new style elements? If you have read my other posts here, you most likely already know that I firmly believe in knowing the ...
Continue reading…But I’m a Terrible Writer!
Writing Do you have a blog? You don’t? Then what the h-e-doublehockeystick are you doing hanging around a site called “Blogging Tips?” Oh, you are planning to start a blog soon. Really? How long have you been planning that? About as long as you have been dreaming about what the your name will look like on the cover of your first novel. Forget about the fact that you haven’t even written a line of dialogue. If you are reading ...
Continue reading27 Ways to be a Smarter Writer in 2008
Writing Happy New Year! Okay, I know it’s a bit late, but I missed last week due to illness and I didn’t want to miss spreading the cheer. Did you make resolutions? Have you broken them yet? I don’t believe in new year’s resolutions. I prefer to consider establishing new habits. That way I’m looking at ways I can improve by adding things to my life rather than focusing on negatives that I want to remove. Sort of a ...
Continue readingThree Ways to Keep Your Articles Fresh
Writing I thought long and hard about whether or not I should do a holiday-themed post. There certainly aren’t a lack of them this week so I had to consider if I really had anything to add or if I was just jumping on the bandwagon. In the end, I decided that – at least at the moment – I have nothing to add regarding writing and the holidays. However, the exercise did end up giving me this week’s topic, a question: Do you really ...
Continue readingSeven Steps to a Killer Authority Article
Writing One of the keys to succeeding with an authority blog is being able to write in-depth articles that engage readers. If you have original information, drawing in readers can be relatively easy. The trick is getting them to stick around. You could write the most important article of the century, but very few readers will finish reading it if its lengthy and rambling. So how do you resolve this? Your job as an authority blogger is to make your ...
Continue readingThree Great Reasons to Read Blogs in Other Niches
Writing As a blogger, you are part of a community. If you want to be successful, you must get involved. While it is very important to become involved and read blogs within your blog’s niche, it is also a good idea to spend some of your time reading blogs in other niches. It might seem like you just don’t have enough time to add anything else to your to-do list. But this is seriously an investment worth making. Here are three great reasons to ...
Continue readingJournalism Resources for Bloggers
Writing Blogging is a form of journalism. I have said that before, but I want to really focus on it in this article. To be sure, there are major differences between being a journalist and being a blogger – most notably the freedom that comes from being your own editor, publisher and critic. However, spending a couple of hours perusing a site designed to create better journalists can only help you become a better blogger. Because, really, becoming ...
Continue readingBlogging the Hero’s Journey
Blogging, Writing Last week I discussed profile writing as an alternative to just printing a regular interview. This week, I want to take that a step further and discuss writing a profile as a life story. Writing a life story might seem a bit daunting, but if you have the right outline you can stay on track and create an original, interesting article. The outline we are going to use is the “Hero’s Journey” or monomyth. The Hero’s Journey ...
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