Rewriting - love it or hate it, it’s part of the job of many web content writers. A typical situation is that a client asks you to write a series of articles for a particular purpose, such as to publish them on a website. At the same time, the client asks you to rewrite [...] [...more]
Men with Pens is one of my favorite new blogs. It’s the successor to the Web Content Copywriting blog which I mentioned last year. Run by James Chartrand and Harry McCLeod, this is a writing blog with a difference. These guys really know how to write unique blog posts. It’s refreshing to read new [...] [...more]
Why aren’t you writing yet? A lot of people dream of starting a freelance writing career, but never get around to doing it. One of the reasons is that they fall in love with the dream of writing, but find the reality hard to achieve. So what’s the first thing you should do if you [...] [...more]
I’ve just completed a travel piece about a place I’ve never visited. It may seem a strange thing to do, but this was the commission that my writing client gave me. Usually a travel piece is full of local color, but how do you add that if you’ve never set eyes on the place? Researching The [...] [...more]
Write Really Great Keyword Articles is today’s post from Dana Prince’s Writer’s Blog. I read this blog every day and it’s one of my favourites. This post will tell you why. When you get an assignment that involves ten of the same keyword or twenty or more,it can feel like a bottomless pit at the start. [...] [...more]
Well, it’s nearly time for another edition of Writing Lab News. I started this free newsletter last year and it’s quickly become one of the high points of my month. I’ve also had lots of great feedback on it. If you want to see what’s been in it, take a look at the ever expanding [...] [...more]
Here’s my latest on Garden and Hearth. Three Quick Ways To Create Freelance Writing Clips As a new freelance writer, it is often difficult to provide freelance writing clips when applying for writing jobs. Writing clients want to see examples of your work before they hire you, but if you are new to the writing business, you [...] [...more]
Most freelance writers have a writing style that feels comfortable to them. When I’m writing my own stuff, I write like a Brit. That means flowing, run on sentences and a style that’s slightly wordier than the AP style. I write for a lot of British clients and that style works well for them. [...] [...more]
Here are seven posts that I thought were worth reading: How to have infringing contents removed from the search engines on SixFigureWriters.com Networking within your blog niche from DoshDosh Make your blog posts readable from BlogTutorials Are you in love with your own writing from Copyblogger Web writing: your top five money making skills from Fab Web Writers Putting Together Ghostwriting [...] [...more]
As a freelance writer, you may well end up having to interview sources and you will need a way of keeping track of the information. I always travel with a recording device, spare batteries, a power cable and a notebook. I’m not talking about a laptop, but an old fashioned notebook with lines in it [...] [...more]
