Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

He made verisimilitude real for writers by using another phrase: “a willing suspension of disbelief.” AKA, the story is so enthralling you willingly go along with the writer. So, a writer needs to have their proverbial ducks in a line when writing. Answer: Read good books and pay attention to how other writers do it.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 31, 2023

Dexter Morgan’s soliloquies, Dexter (2006 – 2013) Every Saturday, beginning dive classes practice underwater skills beside this dock. Why Do Writers Use Soliloquies? The post 10 Soliloquy Examples That’ll Bring Out Your Inner Shakespeare appeared first on Smart Blogger. Watch the clip for yourself: 10.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Why Succeeding As a Blogger Is Simple but Hard. Becoming a successful blogger is a lot like becoming a successful weight-loss story. Yet most bloggers fail because (like dieters) they can’t stick to their resolutions. What does that mean for those who want to succeed as bloggers? Willpower is temporary. Maybe years.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 6, 2011

Since then, I’ve been running a copywriting business, become a regular blogger , and have had “>two “>books published , with a third “>just recently released. With the amount of work I’ve been producing, I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer and about writing in general. Moderation? What about you?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The post 10 Tips to Help You Land a Job as a Freelance Blogger appeared first on ProBlogger. Whether you’re looking to become a full-time blogger, want to supplement your blogging income, or simply want to make a bit of money to support your own blog as it grows, finding a paid blogging job can help you go further, faster.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2011

You’re nobody in the blogosphere until you’ve been shown a little love by the influential sites that serious bloggers read, Tweet and flock to. The better you feel about your own abilities and desirability as a guest blogger, the easier it is to approach other blog owners or aim for more ambitious blogging goals. He ain’t wrong.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 24, 2013

As a fiction writer, I’m drawn to the writing section of bookstores. Publishers like Writer’s Digest keep pumping out great titles like, “Where Do You Get Your Ideas? My Top 3 Fiction Writing Books and Why You Should Read Them first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2013, All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 31, 2013

Writers typically have a love-hate relationship to having their work critiqued. But if you’re looking to improve your writing skills, or even get your book published, a critique group is a great first step on that road to becoming a professional writer. That critique group turned out to be exactly what I needed… and then some.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Use cases include: Professional writing – This goes without saying, but if you want to be a writer, you actually have to write. Whether you are a business writer or journalist, maintaining a personal blog is important. Bloggers – If writing is your main focus, then WordPress is a great choice. Who should use it.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

As a fiction writer, I have a whole folder of novel starts that got trashed because of procrastination. As a blogger, I was crazy enough to pitch to ProBlogger (and yes, fail) when my own analytics were damn flat. I may be a writer and I may be a teen, but all fields have the potential to improve my craft.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Thompson was the creator of Gonzo Journalism – or as he called himself, “the doctor of journalism” – and the writer of the infamous books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga , and The Rum Diary. Verbs are the most important words writers will ever use.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Post by Nicole Pyles Nicole Pyles is a writer, blogger, and social networker (and she’s good at it, too). Why Being a Ghostwriter isn’t as Soul-Sucking as You Think first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2013, All Rights Reserved. … Click here to read the rest of the article on Men with Pens.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Written by Taylor - 39 Comments This discussion we’ve been having about whether bloggers should get paid for their work is fascinating, and I think it’s pretty great that the whole MwP community here has been so level-headed and thoughtful about it. To hear them tell it, bloggers who don’t give it away have turned positively abusive.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

That theory about tortured writers? When you’re a problogger who owns a top ten blog for writers that’s all about writing and you write for a living to boot, the last thing you want to admit is that you can’t hack it. Did I need a writer’s recovery program Was I tapped out on blogging? I couldn’t write.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2011

As writers, we rely on our unique ability to convey the visual world in words. I’m Steff, a legally blind writer and blogger. As a writer, you can’t be half-assed, you can’t be wishy-washy. As writers, we’re eternally curious. You think you’re writing project is hard?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 16, 2011

Being a (surprise, surprise) a topnotch writer will. I blog for entrepreneurs, so I decided to hire a writing coach who has succeeded in blogging and helps other bloggers do the same. Long-time professional bloggers may think this elementary, but it’s not for those who earned spurs in traditional media. (In

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Tons of professional writers offer consultations (in person, online, or by phone), e-courses, lectures, tutoring, coaching, conference presentations, and workshops in places as diverse as their own living rooms and large auditoriums. Many writers share booths with other writers to disperse costs and draw a larger crowd.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Your mind, like your body, must be trained to perform in certain ways, and a regimented schedule is a necessity when it comes to earning a living as a freelance writer. Are you an introvert writer? 23 Responses to “Don’t Be an Introvert Writer&# Comments Read below or add a comment. How about you? Great post.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 26, 2012

You know that stereotype of the tortured writer? I know this because I took the Damn Fine Words writing course, taught by A-list blogger and professional copywriter, James Chartrand. And with techniques like these at your disposal, you can put that tortured writer stereotype to rest. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 11, 2019

As bloggers, we tend to focus on what we’re creating now rather than what we created months or even years ago. Or maybe I’ll ask one of our writers to write a post that takes a different angle. #8: I then go back 18 months, 24 months, 30 months, and so on – right back to the start of the blog in 2006.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 27, 2012

Men with Pens become a popular Top Ten Blog for Writers faster than the speed of light. Today, Men with Pens is one of those big-name blogs accepting guest post submissions, and getting a yes is often considered a prized achievement for many writers. What top bloggers really look for in guest posts (so you can give it to them!).

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

Too often, we writers fob reviews off as easy content. And being loud, opinionated writers, we’re quite fond of judging. A review tests the writer’s skill at persuasion and description. One way to make reviews more interesting – both for you as the writer and for your readers – is to focus on the wider picture.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 14, 2011

These weren’t writers setting up shop to be hired. If you’re a start-up business owner, an entrepreneur, a self-employed freelancer, an in-house writer, a blogger, an editor… if you need to create effective content to market your business (or someone else’s), then Damn Fine Words is for you. How to write engaging posts.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

This tip fits into the ‘it’s not rocket science’ category of blogging tips (as do many blog tips) – however as simple as it sounds I regularly see bloggers falling into the trap of talking ‘AT’ readers rather than blogging in a conversational voice. Write in a Conversational Voice.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

Writing a fiction book makes you a better freelancer, and here’s why: You’ll be a much better writer. I believe that people who read a ton of books are better writers overall. If you’re not a writer or have never really tried your hand at penning a long writing project, don’t despair. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2012

These weren’t writers setting up shop, by the way. If you’re a start-up business owner, an entrepreneur, a self-employed freelancer, an in-house writer, a blogger, an editor… If you need to write effective content for your business (or someone else’s), then Damn Fine Words is the course for you. How to write engaging posts.

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Men With Pens

MAY 14, 2012

Now, the Damn Fine Words writing course gives you plenty of writing techniques that help turn you into that confident writer. That’s a common mistake many bloggers make – sitting down without a plan thinking they’ll smash out awesome posts just like magic. That is… if you’re actually writing those posts.

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Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

It’s especially hard for new writers to find their writing voice, because they already feel awkward having their work in the spotlight and subject to public approval. Why We Struggle to Find our Voice Writers worry. One of the problems is that writers write in ways that fit our beliefs, not the reality. Forget that.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2020

And in 2006 I killed off the camera review and camera phone blogs. I had to work really hard on writing content and growing the archive, along with growing its traffic by writing sharable content, networking, writing guest posts and collaborating with other bloggers. The first thing I killed off was the Breaking News blog.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One of the biggest barriers facing a new writer – a blogger, a novelist, a copywriter – is the self-knowledge of just how far away you are from their ideal. If you’re having a hard time as a writer because you look at your own work and you think, “This isn’t good enough,” that’s a good sign. They are patient. They can wait.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 18, 2011

You know that writers need to read to improve their writing skills. It means finding out exactly what other writers do. If you want to improve your skills as a writer, you need to be able to figure out why you liked this or that – and what made it work. So let me show you how to be a better writer, starting with structure.

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ProBlogger

JULY 20, 2013

Don’t we, as bloggers, pride ourselves on being the gatekeepers of information, upcoming releases and Game of Thrones memes? The term Slow Blogging was coined by Todd Sieling in his 2006 manifesto. A Slow Blogger: Gives his ideas time and space to fully form. But slow…blogging? But let’s back-track a moment.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

She’s more like a Featured Blogger ’round here at the Pen Men Palace. Writers come in different flavors. Writers come in different flavors. There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), technical writers and… Fiction writers. I’m hurt.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

This tip fits into the ‘it’s not rocket science’ category of blogging tips (as do many blog tips) – however as simple as it sounds I regularly see bloggers falling into the trap of talking ‘AT’ readers rather than blogging in a conversational voice. Write in a Conversational Voice.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This is a guest contribution from travel blogger Chris Appleford. If you’re a good writer, you might be able to pump out a well-written, articulate piece of prose in about an hour or so. If you’re an average writer, it’s going to take longer.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

These events are designed with very similar goals to this podcast – to help bloggers to grow blogs with world changing content, with lots of readers and which are profitable. I know a lot of you as bloggers are wondering whether you should have one blog or more than one blog. 2006 came around and I decided to make the switch.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

The world is full of dreaming writers who have heard golden stories of the great beyond (working full time as a well-paid freelance copywriter) but who have yet to make the mysterious transformation from mere mortal to freelance god. Great points in there for any blog writer, not just those wanting to freelance for someone else.

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