Elna Cain

APRIL 15, 2024

Related tech layoff news But The Remote Job Interview Process Is Worse I recently shared my thoughts on seeing “fake” writing jobs all over LinkedIn and job boards. It’s ludicrous, and what’s worrying is that desperate freelancers are falling for this. I find this crazy. But first, let’s unwrap this mess.

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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. Pick the right ideas If you’re wondering who I am writing for … Of course, it’s you. At her desk.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What is beauty? And beautiful writing? I used to think that beautiful writing was just about a poetic writing style. Beautiful writing is vivid, concise, and rhythmic. But the more I think about it, the more I realize there’s more to beautiful writing than style. Beautiful writing is alive.

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Freelance Magic

MARCH 12, 2024

The good news? What’s even better is you don’t need any experience to begin freelancing (wondering what a freelance writer does ? I’m going to walk you through the pros and cons and what you can do right now to start freelancing. Read the guide). Luckily, you don’t have to do the tedious guesswork with this guide.

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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.

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Nick Ursborne

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This means we are already way past the conversation where some writers argue with me about whether AI writing is “good enough”. The question now is how we can be part of the future of writing online. Our role is to contribute the deep emotional layers of what it means to be human. through a combination of AI and humans.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’ve now had over a year to become proficient with AI writing tools like ChatGPT. 1 – Be aware of the emotional persona of the company you’re writing for. And the absence of emotion can be exacerbated by the use of AI-assisted writing. After all, “robotic” writing doesn’t evoke emotions. Volvo cars make you feel safe.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There is something flat and unsatisfying about writing in a formulaic way. Academic writing. Business writing. Marketing writing. As a copywriter, the least satisfying type of writing for me is when I follow some kind of template or framework. But… I don’t get much pleasure from writing like that.

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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. Using LinkedIn was one of the methods I used to land a freelance writing gig back when I first started.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 17, 2024

And yes… marketing, writing, media and the like are in the front lines here. So what can you do? Step 2 is to get ahead of the crowd and differentiate your writing with a high level of Emotional Intelligence. AI writing tools like ChatGPT do an amazing job of research, analysis, outlining, and writing first drafts.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2024

You’ve barely heard what they’re talking about on the radio. Surprise refocuses attention When reading, our brains try predicting what comes next. Research by Katherine DeLong and others at the University of California showed that we predict what words are to come before reading them. It was lipsmackingly good.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Companies find it hard to resist the math of using AI to write at least some of their copy and content. And sometimes, when writing informational content, optimized for SEO, and published in bulk, with some light human editing AI can come close to being “good enough”. It turns out ChatGPT is really good at that.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We try to figure out why their writing is so powerful, and then apply the same techniques to our own writing. But good writing is not just about emulation and intuition. Science backs up a lot of writing advice. Keep it simple Simple writing takes less processing power and less energy. Shall I show you?

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What’s the foundation of good writing? Such sentences sneak into my own writing, too. And I keep learning from the masters … “All you have to do is write one true sentence.” When Hemingway faced writer’s block, he told himself: All you have to do is write one true sentence.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Using AI to write copy and content offers incredible productivity benefits. At every stage of using these AI writing tools, ask yourself how to make the copy more emotionally engaging. This is why stories can be such an impactful way to express Emotional Intelligence in your writing. That’s what gives them power.

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Enchanting Marketing

MAY 23, 2023

I’ve been studying writing for years. Sure, I use it in my writing. What’s more … Parallelism makes your writing easier to read because readers recognize the patterns. What’s more … Parallelism makes your writing easier to read because readers recognize the patterns.

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I’m me… the good, the bad and the less-than-perfect. The quality of the content varies, from average to pretty good. We can outshine the work of AI by writing with a high level of emotional intelligence. Then write copy that acknowledges and addresses those emotions. You can do this way better than an AI writing tool.

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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. What can she do? Gosh, Helena thinks. Want to know how? Can you, too?

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Grammarly

APRIL 25, 2024

Gen AI technology can give businesses a competitive edge by automating writing tasks, providing strategic suggestions , and enhancing effective communication, including correctness, tone, clarity, and fluency. But what exactly makes business communication effective? Today, we have the data. Moreover, it impacts job performance.

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Content Hacker

APRIL 14, 2024

You’ve got a blog, but you’re stuck on what to write about. What if I told you there’s a treasure trove of blog post ideas just waiting to be uncovered? 120 Best Blog Niche Ideas to Write About Generating consistent and engaging blog ideas can be challenging. Are you ready to write your next blog post?

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Buffer

JANUARY 15, 2024

But what makes B2B content good ? Every seasoned B2B marketer has their own idea of what good content looks like — I know I do — but to get a broader sense of what separates good from bad, I wanted to ask around. Identify what keeps them up at night." Tough question. Interview them.

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Grammarly

APRIL 16, 2024

You’re writing a note to a colleague asking to have a “quick sync” to make a “game-time decision” on a “rock star” candidate you’re sure will “give 110 percent” to the job. Few things are as potentially confusing (or grating) as jargon in business writing. But more often, jargon can make your writing appear vague and pretentious.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 17, 2024

Yet, what little I had read about boundaries when it came to writing (Protect your time! Before we dig in, I first want to introduce boundaries as an expression of what you need to sustain yourself in any given endeavor. Limits refer to what we do not have the capacity for, or what is unsustainable to a particular relationship.

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Grammarly

APRIL 24, 2024

It’s also quite likely you’ll write a social media essay at some point in your academic career. If you’re wondering how to write a social media essay, read on—this guide will walk you through just about everything you need to know to write an impactful social media essay. In today’s world, social media is ubiquitous.

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Smart Blogger

JANUARY 5, 2024

You know you should be writing, but… You can’t do this anymore. And you try to write, but you feel like everything you do manage to jot down is… well… terrible. All of that is fine and good for a simple case of boredom, but the real cause of writer’s block is you’re holding on too tight. He (or she) loves everything you write.

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Income Diary

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Our good friend Clive Cable recently showed on how he used Prompt Engineering to speed up the delivery of his copywriting services. Keep in mind I’ve been writing Lead Generation messages since 1990. You don’t know what great copy looks like. Phone six of your friends and tell them you have an advert to write.

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Good, clear writing—whether it’s for an email, a résumé, a term paper, or a creative project—is not just writing. And if you know you’re going to be giving yourself the opportunity to go back through what you’ve written and make sure your ideas are clear and well organized, you free yourself up to write a fluid first draft.

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Grammarly

MARCH 29, 2024

Whether or not you’re able to include a face-to-face meeting as part of it, you’ll need to send something in writing. And what does it need to say? Ordinarily, a letter is exactly what you should send, but sometimes an email will have to do. Does it have to be a full-fledged letter, or will an email do?

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Grammarly

APRIL 17, 2024

Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly What does paraphrasing a paragraph entail? The points remain the same, but you restate the meaning with new, original writing. Academic writing flows more naturally when you strike a balance between paraphrasing and direct quotes.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2015, I attended a writing retreat with Natalie Goldberg and had a terrible revelation. Now, nine years later, I have a solid writing community that continues to grow and support me. What is literary community and why do people talk about it all the time? A writing career is a long game; you need folks by your side.

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

Most sources for academic writing are articles: news articles, journal articles, magazine and blog articles, and more. To use information from articles in your own writing, it’s helpful to know how to paraphrase an article effectively. You basically take what another person wrote or said, and then rephrase it in your own words.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Mercifully, they took their seats and what began as one of the most cringeworthy nights of my writing career transformed into possibly the loveliest. Because it was an intimate gathering (putting a positive spin on it), we got to chat about writing on a deeply personal level and the reading blossomed into a conversation.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 7, 2024

Yet what began as curiosity is fast developing into an obsession. Apart from the sheer pleasure of the experience, I’ve learned a great deal about what makes a story worth reading and why the genre is so appealing. But minus the historical setting, I think most of my observations apply to any good romance.

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BKA Content

MARCH 28, 2024

How Good Is Squarespace for SEO? Is Squarespace good for SEO? Is Squarespace Good for SEO? Whether you plan to create your own content or are considering engaging blog writing services , organic SEO strategies can help your site rank higher on search engine results pages (SERPs).

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Grammarly

MARCH 28, 2024

Whatever the reason, you may also find, at some point, that there’s a good reason to leave your job. It’s important to handle the situation delicately to stay in your employer’s good graces in case you need to ask them for a reference in the future. Here’s how to write a resignation letter if you’re leaving for personal reasons.

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Grammarly

APRIL 10, 2024

Learn what it is, how it works, and how you can use it to create content, analyze data, and much more. Table of contents What is GPT-4? GPT-4 capabilities GPT-4 API use cases Advantages of GPT-4 Limitations of GPT-4 Conclusion What is GPT-4? GPT-4 vs. GPT-4 Turbo: What’s the difference? Who created GPT-4?

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