(and could possibly make them want to light you on fire) I know I’ve mentioned most of these grammar usage pet peeves peppered throughout other articles, but they keep happening. In view of that, seems that some of these…
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So, you decided – you’re going to work freelance. You’ve been toiling away at your outside job and pecking at your writing if time allows, but lately you’ve chafed at the lack of creative forward movement. You long to…
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Misused Phrases, Take 2 It does so irk me when people get these wrong, so we’re taking another crack at a few more misused phrases. When I have my editor hat on and see idioms and expressions mangled into…
Leave a CommentIt’s the new year and I was feeling a bit introspective since the calendar turned over. Like all creatives, I’m always looking for some inspirational words to keep my creative fires stoked. I take no credit for any of…
Leave a CommentChoosing and using keywords for your website is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. Having gone through this exercise multiple times over the years and doing it the wrong way in a multitude of…
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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 you should…
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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 have been…
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 imagine, I’m…
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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 don’t understand…
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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…
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