Tag Archives: Writing

Link Medley Blogging

Problogger writes about 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky, How to Choose a Topic for Your Next Blog Post and asks Does Your Next Blog Post Matter?.
Shilpan Patel of Success Soul has a guest post at Write To Done about 7 Certain Ways to Crucify Your Content.
Skellie writes about How to [...]

Link Medley Blogging

ProBlogger has an interesting guest post from Sara Ost about The Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge Method, Or, Blogging Is Flirting.
WriteToDone has Darren Rowse in Conversation: Top Tips for Writers. The interview has many greet tips.
WordPrezzie has some great WordPress Security Tips.
David Airey has redesigned his blog, Orange anyone? The new look is fresh and simplistic.
ProBlogger [...]

Link Medley writing

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 [...]

How to write well part 2

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 [...]

Write To Done

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits has launched a second blog, Write To Done with the tagline Unmissable Articles About Writing, Twice Weekly. Leo writes on the About page:
I’ve created Write To Done as a way to share some of what I’ve learned as a writer, with new (and experienced) writers looking to improve their craft [...]

How to write well

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 [...]

Skelliewag

Skelliewag.org is a newfound favourite of mine. Great content and a nice looking blog, Skellie also uses pictures in an elegant way in her posts. This is picked from the About-page:
Skelliewag is about creating content your site’s visitors will fall in love with. It’s about using simplicity to your advantage. It’s about being innovative, unique, [...]

Daily Writing Tips

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 [...]

North x East

I found North x East today and love it. Their tagline says “Unmissable weekly articles for Bloggers” which seems pretty accurate. I am catching up with their archive, several of those articles will result in posts in my blog. Their About-page says:
NorthxEast is a blog about blogging. Written by two up and comers with contributions [...]

How do you help rather than hinder your reader’s eye

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 [...]