Aim to Write in Active Voice 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…
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From many decades of creative and commercial writing experience, find posts on writing, editing, style, grammar and related topics of interest to writers. Anyone’s free to give the category a read, of course, but most of this is straight-up “if you don’t write, it probably isn’t going to interest you much” stuff. Just sayin’.
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 you should spell…
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Misused Phrases – 15 idioms, adages, and expressions Misused phrases in writing can kill your credibility in a heartbeat. Errors in idioms, adages, and popular expressions won’t go unnoticed, so it’s important to get these right. It doesn’t matter what…
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Wizards and scribes – storytellers are born not made Storytellers 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…
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Using Social Media Marketing the Right Way 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…
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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 they were a…
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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 you’re starting out.…
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