Archive for the 'Writing' Category

ProBlogger has Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post listing nine criteria a blog post must satisfy if it is to be a successful post.
Think Simple Now has a post about how to Connect with Your Creative Writer.
CopyBlogger has a guest post by Yuwanda Black about 3 Things to Consider When Deciding How Long Your [...]

Based on a comment to How to write well I answered:
My own top writing tip would be to write about what you are passionate about and to let the passion show. When someone combines passion and knowledge almost any topic is worth reading about.
Skellie writes about How to Write Like a Painter where she [...]

It is a bold title but I have gathered links around this for a while and add some of my own comments along the way.
Brian Clark at Copyblogger writes about Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well which actually are four of Hemingway’s and one of Brian’s. Rule number one, Use short sentences, is [...]

Daily Writing Tips is a great blog that helps improve your writing. This text from their About-page explains why you ought to follow the blog:
Whether you are an attorney, manager, student or blogger, writing skills are essential for your success. Considering the rise of the information age, they are even more important, as people are [...]

I found a very interesting and useful article titled Pulling Your Reader In over at North x East. The article cover subjects like:

Text legibility
Use Pullquotes
Use Images
Vary your text
Small columns of text

I fully agree on the importance of avoiding small text size, I find that annoying and often leave sites that are a strain on the [...]

Blogging Expertise is a really useful blog about blogging, writing and WordPress. Start by browsing categories such as “Best Practices” and “Tips”.

Here comes my third (and last) selection of blog posts from “Top 5 - Group Writing Project - Full Submission List”:
Five essential skills for blogging success
Five Things I Hate About Blogging
My Blogging Swiss Army Knife: Top 5 Essential Sites For Bloggers
Top 5 Blogging Myths
Top 5 Ways To Stop Being a Perfectionist
Top 5 Tips for Achieving [...]

I have continued browsing “Top 5 - Group Writing Project - Full Submission List” and found more blog posts that I like. Here is a second batch:
5 things I wish all bloggers did
Top 5 Tips Writing for Blogs
Top 5 tips for beating blogger’s block
Top 5 Reasons for Multiple Blogs Under a Single Domain
Five things to [...]

The Top 5 - Group Writing Project got an impressive 893 submissions. My own post got number 701.
I just picked some random posts whose title sounded interesting and found these ones, all well worth reading:
Top 5 Ways To Identify a Bad Listener
Five ways Shiatsu has changed my life
Five Hard Truths of Freelance Writing
5 Top [...]

These are the top 5 things I look for in a blog.
1. Looks and style.
I prefer a clean look where content is king. Too much clutter drives me away. Ads can bring home money to the site but if the ads are all over the place and are more prominent than the content then something [...]

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