Few things are worse to a writer than being taunted by a blank screen or page. You wrack your brain trying to dislodge a solid idea, only to find your muse has gone on sabbatical without telling you. I’ve found myself in this scenario more than a few times, and...
Since search engines use keywords as a jumping off point when filtering results, it’s incredibly important to make sure that you know how to use keywords in your content correctly so that your content has a better chance of being found, indexed and ranked. While...
Caffeinate. Write. Check social media. Write more of the same. Sleep. Repeat. It’s easy to get into a routine, churning out assignment after assignment for the same client, the same topics, or the same type of content. We all have our niches, and there is comfort in...
I personally love the use of adverbs at certain times to further clarify the action of a sentence, especially when taking on a creative writing project. Although there is some debate as to whether or not adverbs weaken writing, there is likely to come a time, whether...
Oh, the irony of trying to get inspired so one can write a blog post about writing inspiration. This is my fourth or fifth or 20th pass at this opening paragraph, and I’m still waiting for the perfect sentence to flow through my fingers and onto this page....
One of the first grammar rules I ever learned was to avoid splitting infinitives. While there are many rules that govern how written and spoken English is structured, there are also many different ways to string words together and convey meaning. Indeed, using split...
