Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

31, 2023) Question I attend webinars and online conferences, to learn the craft of writing, though I was a poet in another life back when getting my BA. I was raising a child so hedged my bets by double majoring in developmental psychology and creative writing. Use code JANE15 at checkout for 15% off. Expires Dec.

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

How do you continue to produce high-quality, engaging content when you’ve already covered your primary topics? If you’re wondering how often to blog, read on for insider tips on developing and executing a winning content plan. How Often Should You Blog? The short answer to how often to blog is as frequently as possible.

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Contented

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When I became a parent, I felt like I was on a treadmill all the time. I wanted to work, spend quality time with my kids, keep active, pay off the mortgage, and please everyone. But I was pleasing no one. . I knew something had to change. I needed more flexibility (and way less stress than my lawyer job).

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 20, 2024

Writing prompts shouldn’t feel like you’re acting as a “prompt engineer”. Honestly, I don’t much like that term. First, I think it’s disrespectful to true engineers. Writing prompts is not engineering. But more to the point, I think the title steers us in the wrong direction. Did I then blame the guitar?

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Enchanting Marketing

APRIL 23, 2024

How good are you at explaining your ideas? Let’s be honest, writing a good explanation is tougher than it seems. Writing works the same. The best writing combines satellite-style zooming out with telephoto-like zooming in. You see how the roads and fields are flooded after months of rain. Shall I show you?

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Elna Cain

APRIL 15, 2024

I’ve been hearing a lot of stories about ultra-long job interview process steps, multiple people involved, and at the end of all the hoops candidates go through, they are told they didn’t get the job. I find this crazy. I suppose with COVID-19, there are more people needing jobs. I spent 5 weeks applying to this job!

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Elna Cain

MARCH 27, 2024

Want to know EXACTLY what you need to gain a writing job from the people that ACTUALLY hire writers? These freelance writing tips are invaluable information for you. I don’t know about you, but I always thought professionalism, promptness, and availability were the only things I needed to know or have.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 27, 2024

One of the hardest things new freelance writers face is the uphill battle of trying to find a dang writing job. It can be challenging if you don’t know where to look or all you see from freelance platforms like Upwork are low-paying writing jobs. But, you know what I haven’t done to help you out?

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 22, 2024

Where can I find the best price for an all-inclusive vacation in Cancun?” “How How do I make coffee with a percolator?” When not asking questions, we simply instruct these tools to write something, or design something. Write me an email promoting our latest product launch. It did as I asked.

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Enchanting Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Writing is just so hard. She wishes she could write as if she were chatting with a friend. Heather rereads her favorite quote by Kurt Vonnegut, stuck to her monitor on a yellow Post-it note: Write to please just one person. But how can she make it work? What’s key is that I try to understand her aims.

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 12, 2024

As a budding young copywriter in the early 1980s, I worked with an art director as my partner, and our work was overseen by the agency’s creative director. In my early days, the creative director would look over my shoulder and sometimes say something like, “Interesting idea, but I don’t think it’s working”. I see the attraction.

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Nick Ursborne

MARCH 12, 2024

I asked it, “How would you feel if I gave you a puppy?” It replied, “I think I’d be quite puzzled about where to put it or how to take care of it, considering I don’t have hands or a home in the usual sense. How about we imagine together what kind of adventures this puppy might have?”

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Enchanting Marketing

MAY 7, 2024

Who writes a post about 3 tiny dots? But here’s the thing … The ellipsis— dot dot dot —can have an outsized impact on your writing. I spotted it in Consider the Oyster , written in 1941 by M.F.K. The drumroll is perfect for any type of writing including sales letters, social media posts, blogs, and emails.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I’ve thought a lot about writing this year. And about the value of writing. Writing has felt as an act of defiance. And, sometime in June, my inner critic tried to tell me writing was a waste of my energy. Quit writing! But I didn’t want to listen to my inner critic. I asked my inner critic to be patient.

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Elna Cain

MARCH 17, 2024

How do you find freelance work online? When I started out in 2014, I just used freelance job boards, and boom! I found clients, but now? Or, what if you have absolutely no experience writing online or writing for freelance clients? How the heck are you suppose to find online freelance work?

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Enchanting Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I devour a lot of fiction. And I know it’s frowned upon in some business quarters. And yes, I do understand. If you want to write better sales copy, then learn the principles of persuasion and study how the best copywriters write their copy. How does their copy engage? How does it nudge you to buy?

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When I started using LinkedIn as a freelance writer, I thought of it as a resume platform. I soon learned there was more to optimizing your profile than just listing your past work. If I switched up my LinkedIn profile to align with my new career as a freelance writer, I would be getting leads on tap.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

” I like that. I can feel the presence of beauty when sun rays peek through the trees. I can hear the beauty in the raw voice of 71-year old Johnny Cash singing We’ll meet again. I can witness beauty in an unexpected gesture of kindness. In such moments, I feel fully present, and I feel alive.

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 6, 2024

You have a lot of choices when using AI to write content. Then you have dozens, if not hundreds of new AI-writing platforms, most of which are using these models as the engines that drives them. And that means most AI writing lacks the human touch. I didn’t just make it up. It has zero emotional intelligence.

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Enchanting Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2023

And she doesn’t like the tone of her writing at all. Helena is an expert in climate change, and she’d like to write in a conversational tone … As if she’s explaining climate change to a friend while sipping an ice tea at the town plaza. How to write conversationally Some say … Just write like you talk.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So, lately, whenever I check different job boards and platforms, I’ve been noticing something shifting with freelance writing jobs. At first, I only saw one or two jobs, but then as the months rolled by, it seemed like whole job boards are dedicated to these seemingly-looking freelance writing jobs.

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Enchanting Marketing

MAY 9, 2023

It’s one of the most asked questions in my inbox … Why is writing so hard? And variations of that question: What should I do when the words don’t flow? How can I get my thoughts on paper? What are the routines that make writing easier? I always try to help people out. Writing IS hard.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The post How I Write a Blog Post: My Step-by-Step Process appeared first on ProBlogger. I’m often asked how I write a blog post. ProBlogger readers and podcast listeners have asked about where in the process I do specific things, such as writing the headline and the introduction.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

I think it’s important to offer challenges like this, as it’s very easy to read or listen to what to do , but actually doing it is a totally different thing all together. In fact, absorbing knowledge without putting it into practise is one of the 21 mistakes I see new bloggers make fairly consistently.

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Enchanting Marketing

MAY 20, 2024

You read how fantastic a product is. So, what if you could write sales copy like a storyteller? How do you tell such a sales story? Today, I’d like to share with you a story by Apple. At first glance, their story explains how they developed the Cinematic mode. Shall I explain? And how was it trained?

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 12, 2024

I rarely watch the news. I prefer reading. How does he do it? Atkins’ advice is applicable to most writing. Atkins’ advice is applicable to most writing. For instance, on a sales page, you explain how your product works. Next, write simply without shying away from complexity. Or left out.

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Enchanting Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

How can you be personal without oversharing? I ring the bell again. By 3 PM I am getting fed up. I decide to ring the phone number printed on a sheet of paper, stuck on the door. In my best French (not good at all), I ask when I can check in. Above all, the places I like are where I feel welcome.

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s easy for writers and copywriters to roll their eyes when they hear about AI writing tools. At their current level of performance, these tools often produce generic, slightly robotic text that can’t entirely replicate that unique human touch in writing. It’s the same with AI writing tools. I don’t need to change.”

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Elna Cain

DECEMBER 11, 2023

December typically means something other than landing new writing jobs since many companies slow down the hiring process during this time. But landing writing work is happening to me now and it’s a new thing. Last year, I took a break in December because I was overworked and stressed out. Prospects will DM you!

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Uhm, yeah … The most common writing advice is to write daily. But … Daily writing is not possible for everyone. Sometimes I miss a few days; sometimes a few weeks. At best, I write daily-ish. But I am always ( well, almost always ) keen to return to writing. Also, I build bridges.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2023

Do you ever wonder how others edit their writing ? So, picture my delight when I came across a fabulous example of revision … By a bestselling author! Mother told me how the wealth of these farmers differed from the West Texas dirt farmers of her Dust Bowl youth, who doled out mortgaged seed from croaker sacks.

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Write Freelance

JANUARY 21, 2023

Finding and enrolling in the best creative writing courses in India has been more difficult than I thought. At least it used to be, seven years ago when I had just dived into freelance writing. I wanted to hone my skills and practice fiction writing too, which is when I started looking for creative writing courses online.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 4, 2024

Do you start your writing project with AI, and then tweak the outputs to make the copy more emotionally intelligent? That’s how most people do this. And it’s how I do it myself, some of the time. Let’s say I want to write a short blog post about saving for retirement. Which comes first, AI or EI?

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 7, 2023

Sometimes, I savor a book slowly. I pick the book up, read a few pages, then put it down again. I highlight ideas and sentences that attract my attention. Later, I treat myself to rereading those highlights. What makes writing worth savoring like that? I highlighted 82 snippets of text. Only 35 words.

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Enchanting Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I bet you know someone. But could it be that a dash of wordiness sneaks into your writing? Shall I explain? I was packing for my first cycling trip. I had to carry my luggage—ALL my luggage—on my bike. A few days before the trip, I spread out what I wanted to take on my bed.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 15, 2024

All I did was provide the prompt. First, what I share below represent the last two steps in a longer back and forth between myself and GPT-4. Second, I didn’t use the regular GPT-4. Second, I didn’t use the regular GPT-4. I used my own Custom GPT. It even came up with our copywriter’s name… Emma.

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Elna Cain

JANUARY 13, 2023

Have you been hearing a lot about AI and AI writing tools? The age of an AI writing tool is here, and as freelance writers, we need to EMBRACE this new way of writing. I know many writers are thinking this is the end of freelance writing, but it’s not. The AI Writing Tool I Use.

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