Smart Blogger

MARCH 7, 2023

Here are a few other creative writing exercises you might want to explore: Freewriting This is when you write about anything that pops into your head. Take a blank page, set a timer for 30 minutes, and start writing. Write whatever your brain tells you to, and don’t worry if it’s nonsensical. Just go with it.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 23, 2011

You probably know the answer to this one by now – plenty of articles out there talk about the importance of body language in communication. Except online, in writing, there aren’t any bodies at all. My straightforward writing style got smoothed out with an extra dose of friendly. It was all good, all normal.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 20, 2024

It's not so much in the writing process. It's just the blank Word document page. I read a lot of books about both sides of things, I read a lot of articles, but the determining factor for me was actually interviewing other authors. If they're writing sci fi, they will talk about sci fi on their channel.

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ProBlogger

JULY 21, 2014

I write ridiculously awesome content for you (sometimes in your own voice) optimized for search traffic. However, you go ahead and keep cutting and pasting articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, (old time newspaper fill in the blank), etc. More importantly, I will never write an article for $5 ever again.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

She told me that my writing style had really improved over the past couple of years. It shouldn’t have surprise me at all, really – I’ve been writing six to ten blog posts a week, every week, for at least eighteen months. You can’t even assume that your writing gets steadily and constantly better over time.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Mining the gold from a single blog post In 2004, Eric Ries met investor and startup guru Steve Blank and worked with him at Berkeley on Blank’s rapid customer feedback methodology. Consistent style. Either way you choose to do it, remember to be ruthless and limit the scope of your topic. Same with chapters.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

This affected anyone who used article marketing as a way to build links and drive traffic to their websites, since article networks were hit the hardest , though some—like HubPages— regained their rankings in subsequent updates. Contribute unique content to quality article networks.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Usually copy comes in nice bite-sized chunks: a webpage, a blog post, an article, a press release. Each ‘thing’ (typically an action) was written on a Post-It note and stuck higgledy-piggledy on a blank wall. I use a door to do my sorting of the stickie index cards since I don’t have a large blank wall within reach.

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