The Write Blog

Image via Wikipedia Dust off your laptops, start doing some preliminary research, and clear your schedule for November: The beginning of next month marks the 10th anniversary of National Novel Writing Month. Here’s the deal. Anyone can participate (you just need to register on the NaNoWriMo site). Writing begins Novembers 1st and ends November 30th [...]

Versatile writers are hard to find. For a long time I was surprised when I’d get great journalism samples from a writer, but the minute I put them on a copywriting project, it was a total flop – and vice versa. But I’ve finally discovered the disconnect: the real reason that some writers have such [...]

Photo by mag3737 When it comes to writing, there are dozens of rules just begging to be broken. Some are flexible and give you a little wiggle room — like hyphenation or deciding whether to use the comma before the “and” in lists. But there are other grammar rules that you just don’t break. You [...]

So, I’ve been reading some great posts by Jason Falls and Mark Schaefer on this subject, so I thought I’d throw in my two cents. With the new social media, comes new questions, and not all of those questions are about how your blog makes business sense. Some of those questions are about ethics: Is [...]

Do you know the #1 reason that good writers fail at writing as a profession? Bad customer service. Well, no, that’s not exactly accurate. A lot of writers are capable of decent customer service. But, in the end, they’re only human. And the truth is, when it comes to writing for a client, some supernormal [...]