Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 27, 2023

People lined up for signed copies of The Hotel Nantucket and were thrilled to hear that Elin’s bestseller, The Perfect Couple , is being adapted into a six-episode whodunit for Netflix. “I She spoke to 800 fans about her love of Nantucket (where she resides) and the beach settings in her books.

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Top Content Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

This will help polish up your prose and allow your work to shine. Developmental editing , substantive editing , line editing , and copy editing each tackle a specific problem or concern with your writing. Editors have extensive tools and training that, when properly wielded, will make your prose sing. What is editing?

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Smart Blogger

APRIL 14, 2023

fee and you can get up to $5 per page (up to 5 pages) plus two copies of the magazine if you get published. Swamp Pink Formerly Crazy Horse, Swamp Pink accepts poetry but also prose. The pay starts at $12, and you get 2 printed copies plus a 40% discount on further copies. Submissions have a small $2.00

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

Paraphrasing is used as an alternative to direct quotes, which copy another person’s words exactly without changing anything. Change the structure: Turn prose into bulleted lists, or create headers to make the content scannable and easier to understand. Paraphrasing does not require quotation marks because it uses new wording.

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Grammarly

APRIL 10, 2024

This eliminates the need to copy and paste your work between platforms. For example, GPT-4 can be fine-tuned with information like advertisements, website copy, direct mail, and email campaigns to create an app for writing marketing content. In particular, it’s better at maintaining the cohesiveness and consistency of a narrative.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Entries should be 100 words or fewer, and the prizes range from $10 to $100 dollars.

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Contently

APRIL 13, 2023

If you want an email subject line and body copy, say that. Do you want conversational prose, technical writing, or sector-specific terminology? For example, ads promoting an eBook or landing page copy for a webinar. You should, however, write a longer prompt with the specific details you need. A blog post of 1,000 words or less?

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Grammar Underground

MAY 15, 2023

With regularity” may be the worst assault against my prose yet. They can turn prose into a night of the living dead.” But sometimes I wear the other hat, the writer’s hat. And in that role, I am, from time to time, the victim of editorial malpractice. So what’s so bad about “with regularity”? A number of things.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

You should avoid recycling the same content; it’s boring (and copying is dishonest). The checker also gives you a detailed plagiarism report that makes it easy to find where someone else’s writing has been copied. No more worry about whether your prose is up to the task. So, what’s a writer to do? We’ve laid it all out.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Entries should be 100 words or fewer, and the prizes range from $10 to $100 dollars.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

Additionally, if you ask it to actually write a scene or paragraph for you, be prepared to do a lot of editing and polishing because the prose is wordy, the dialogue is stilted, and the description is cliché and generic. I did the same writing copy for Amazon ads. Also write press releases, book blurbs, ad copy, blog posts, etc.

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Grammarly

MARCH 19, 2024

It uses natural language processing to generate text content in various formats, such as code or prose. Summarizing text If you copy a text into ChatGPT, you can prompt it to generate a summary of the key points. How to use ChatGPT Advantages of ChatGPT Limitations of ChatGPT Conclusion What is ChatGPT? What does ChatGPT stand for?

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Smart Blogger

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Vignettes in television and film are similar to vignettes in prose, except they’re literally seen and heard. To which Dwight copied and followed. The atmosphere takes shape and leads to the rest of the short story. The Best Examples of Vignettes in Films & Series. It took a minute, but once Dwight caught on, he wasn’t happy.

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Smart Blogger

MAY 11, 2023

Persuade with powerful prose. Then you can weave your reader into the story, using sweater-knit marketing copy (meaning: no fluff) to tell a compelling story. This will allow you to write in a distinctive voice and from a unique perspective. Remove the fluff , add power words, and use metaphors to entertain and delight your readers.

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Grammar Underground

APRIL 19, 2021

And it has an uncanny power to promote wordy, inefficient prose. It pops up where it doesn’t belong in sentences like “I should of known.” It baffles even word-savvy users in expressions like “too big of a deal.” If you grew up speaking English, you never really had to learn “of.”

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Honey Copy

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

And, while I’m a working writer that has put out two books of poetry and prose , hundreds of essays and more advertising than I can count for brands of all shapes and sizes… I realized that if I wanted to be the kind of “creator” that I admire, I’d have to do less curating and more creating. He’s too busy writing his own writing.

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The Write Life

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

When it comes to powerful copy, few elements hold as much sway as the aptly named ‘trigger words.’ From the persuasive prose of a seasoned copywriter to the captivating narratives of a storyteller, trigger words help breathe life into written content, transforming passive readers into active participants.

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Grammar Underground

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But they're also common culprits in bad prose — inserting unnecessary or obvious information or linking ideas in ways that don't quite make sense. Reaching into her purse, Mary pulled out her phone …. Participial phrases like "reaching into her purse" are an indispensable part of the English language.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 9, 2023

Specifically, a potential employer will evaluate the following: Attention to Detail First and foremost, your writing sample should have clean copy and spot-on punctuation. They’re not simply trying to publish your beautiful prose or fluff-filled essays. That means zero typos, syntax, or grammar mistakes. They want results.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In the third example, the clipped prose style begs for “Harder than the bullet,” which happens to be grammatically correct. It’s not that a gangster can’t use standard English; the problem is the inconsistency between the slangy “Yeah, shut up” and the use of “fewer” where “less” would be more natural.

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BKA Content

OCTOBER 9, 2022

A good blog post must be crafted carefully to blend statistics and facts with wordplay and lilting prose. You choose the items you need and send us the directions for your blog content, and we provide a fast turnaround on quality, original copy. Blogs that work are carefully sculpted from research and talent. Blogs are complicated.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 20, 2021

I’m also convinced that it produces unoriginal prose that’s much stiffer and more cramped. For years I edited every line to perfection before moving on, and when I finished a piece it was completely finished. But I’m convinced that stopping to edit as you go makes writing much more painful and takes much longer.  A.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2015

You love prose, you love language, you love how a perfectly-constructed sentence can say so much more than just letters put in order. If you’re unlike me, however, you love to use lots of words, and write mountains of prose. If you’re anything like me, you love words. Can you say it in fewer words? Read it Aloud.

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Article Writing

AUGUST 10, 2022

Website copy? Rest assured, they all want hard-hitting journalism – or Truman Capote-style prose – but are willing to spend no more than $20 on it. Think taglines, magazine ads, branded copy, and so on. Are we talking about product descriptions? Social media posts? Download Here our 10 fundamental marketing questions.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

And to be fair, there is still a lot of crap out there, passing itself off as legitimate copy. You can write a 100,000-word novel and keep the reader’s attention, if the copy is clean. Copywriting taught me to make each phrase count, and my prose is better for it. Here’s what I learned…. Clarity wins.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 11, 2014

Keep in mind that they are usually fervent studiers of the English language, AP style, tone, and prose. A Community Tool Box publication offers some tips on avoiding press release rejection by using proper grammar, spelling, titles, style, and prose. Remember, editors won’t fix your document for you; that’s on you.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 1, 2022

The grain of truth: “Said” followed by a pronoun (“said she”) is more at home in poetry or highly lyrical prose. Why it’s not true: “Because it’s demonstrably silly,” said the copyeditor. And inconvenient,” added the intern. Maybe the myth arose from an unwarranted extrapolation from those contexts.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 9, 2013

You see, many people tell me they wish they could register for Damn Fine Words, because they know that if they could just get in the course… …they could set their business firmly on the path of success, because they’d finally have the skills to write engaging website copy that pulls in much-needed clients. That’s all.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 26, 2010

Does your website copy look like you’re trying to impress that professor who won’t give out an A unless you blind him with such stunning prose that he rocks back in his leather-upholstered chair, glassy-eyed, pipe askew, groping blindly with his grading pen? Who could make their website copy better (and simpler).

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 20, 2012

You see, many people tell me they wish they could register for Damn Fine Words, and that if they could just get in… …they could finally start that online business, because they’d have the skills to write website copy that pulls in clients. That’s all. There are no points given for correct grammar or spelling.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you’re a serious writer, chances are good that you have a battered copy of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird on your shelf (or, if you’re like me, maybe you’ve committed large chunks of it to memory). Thinking about your “we” is going to help you think about how to craft concrete moments that will bring your “we” into your prose.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Based in Maryland with roots in New York, she’s been crafting effective marketing copy as a writer and polishing many forms of prose as an editor since 2002. Pick one and start writing, tangle-free. Shakirah Dawud is the writer and editor behind Deliberate Ink. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Whose Blog First?

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Prose offers weekly challenges meant to spark your creativity; many are just for fun, but look for the weekly numbered challenges posted by Prose (rather than community members or sponsors) for a chance to win money. Each year, it opens submissions for pieces in four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and prose poetry.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. I hire a copy editor to clean up my posts, and while the ideas, connections, turns of phrase, overall structure and layout are mine, it still feels inauthentic. Write with a copy editor. So here’s my response. Persistence pays.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But in reality, it was the copy that did the heavy lifting. Today, I’ll walk you through how to write killer copy that doesn’t just make your product or service look awesome; it’s going to actually drive sales. How to Write Killer Copy Like a Pro. The same applies to writing copy.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 23, 2023

Ready to add some interest and flair to your prose? Although poetic diction is most often used in poetry , it can be found in other forms of writing, such as song lyrics, limericks , or even advertising copy. Looking for diction examples to inspire your next writing project? How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 28, 2011

Whenever you publish content, you can copy and paste the article from your WordPress dashboard and blast it away. Select your template and edit the body copy. The default prose says “Heading 1 Heading 2″ etc. Once you migrate your list to one of these services, you’re ready to send emails. Really old.

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