Archive for February 2022
Getting Feedback Is Hard. Here’s How to Make It Easier
If I ate a donut for every time I’d heard someone tell me how important getting feedback is for writers and other professionals, I’d look a lot like Violet in Willy Wonka, minus the blue. Just acknowledge my rotundness and roll me out the door already. I think most writers understand that feedback enables them…
Read MoreHow to Choose Which Stories or Articles to Write
I could just be a freak about this, but the number of things I want to write in articles or books is getting longer than Santa’s Naughty-and-Nice list. If I see something online that piques my interest, I pop the URL into a Google Doc for later. Down at the bottom of the document, I…
Read MoreHow to Use Automation in Writing Without Sacrificing Originality
In a previous article, I talked about my disdain for using artificial intelligence to produce writing content. In that piece, I tried to stress that, although AI can support writers, it shouldn’t be entirely responsible for bylines people profit from. This doesn’t mean I’m anti-automation. In fact, automation in writing can be brilliant, if you…
Read MoreProviding “Value” on Social Media: What I Learned This Week
It used to be that writers had lots of help marketing themselves, simply because publishers knew that good marketing meant more money in their own pockets. Want to be a writer now, though? Well, hang on to your quill pen, honey, because that job now also requires you to handle your own marketing on social…
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