How an official blog post gets written
Here’s what a writer’s career arc looks like: I used to put other people’s names on things I wrote, and now other people put my name on things they write. The operational concept here is that any time you see something written by someone on behalf of an organization, especially if that person has a […]
Score one for writers
Google’s new algorithm update, which gives a preference to original content in search results, is a blow to content farms and a big win for writers — and readers. Here’s one of my articles, Winning on the Internet: How to Start a Business with No Experience, on a website called Sales Success Magazine, which I’ve […]
Writing and observation
Posted by admin on May 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
One of the insights of John Gardner’s classic On Becoming a Novelist is that writing is about how you see the world. You can only write what you imagine or observe. And in that sense (I’m extrapolating here) fiction is about what writers notice and find important enough to share. To be admitted into what […]
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