Archive for October 2025
7 Tips to Prepare a Modern, AI-Ready Resume
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine brought her resume with her to lunch. She wanted me to take a quick peek at it to see if I had any last-minute recommendations, given that I write for a living. I didn’t make a ton of changes to her document — she’d already worked with…
Read MoreWhat Is Text Blindness?
As an editor, I almost always encourage my clients to review my work carefully, and to have others on their team look at the content as well. That’s not because I’m not confident — I’ve been in this gig for almost two decades. It’s because my own brain inevitably will start to work against me.…
Read MoreAuthors, Please Ditch Your Interview Talking Points. Here’s Why
At some point, as a writer, you’ll start giving interviews — people will want to talk to you about your book, writing process, what inspires you, and what your general life is like. This progression is a good thing, as it means more exposure for your work and expansion of your reach. But I see…
Read MoreWhy I Started Using Substack (and Still Share It with Caution)
Over the past few months, I’ve made the decision to start using Substack. There were two big reasons for this. First, as I’ve noted in previous posts, I’ve lost a lot of the algorithmic visibility I had on virtually all social media platforms, with impressions often not reaching double digits. I needed another way to…
Read MoreEvery Writer When They Hit “Delete” on a Paragraph They Love
By definition, writing is putting words on the page. But before we’re done with a draft, we put our words through a metaphorical meat grinder, adding material, moving things around, reworking phrasing, and… …deleting. So…SO much deleting. We affectionately refer to this as “killing our darlings” — slashing out material we feel emotionally tied to…
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