Knowing the difference between active voice and passive voice is often a tough one for beginning writers. I spend a lot of time editing passive voice out of other people’s writing and remain mindful of it in…
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Wrong pronunciation can lead to incorrect spelling The way words are pronounced doesn’t always correlate to the way they’re written. What I mean by that is, just because you hear a word pronounced one way, doesn’t mean…
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Misused phrases in writing can kill your credibility in a heartbeat. Popular phrases won’t go unnoticed, so it’s important to get these right. It doesn’t matter what field you’re in, when you use idioms and colloquialisms that…
Leave a CommentI never said I was mature, okay? Being slightly o.c.d. means that subconsciously, I understand that my mission in life is to organise the entire universe and everything in it. Due to this, and as you can…
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Okay, let’s get this part out of the way… It appears I’m old. I never really think of myself this way, but I deduced this is true from what I see going on around me lately. I…
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Story tellers are writers who wield their pens (er, or keyboards) with a brilliance and finesse that appears to defy logic and the writing rules in some cases. You’ve seen them. You know who they are. Wizards…
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Okay, so the last time I got on here, I was on a bit of a tear about using social media marketing without responsibility and Spamming the crap out of everyone. I hate it, you hate it,…
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Here’s the current state of the world, at least as far as freelance content writing… With the advent of the Internet, there rose a disturbing trend toward everyone and their brother growing to labour under the delusion…
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Writers’ resources definitely extend beyond simple reference books. However, on the craft of writing itself, books written by successful writers, editors and teachers of writing are a great way to get pointed in the right direction when…
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