Enjoy Writing in November
November is a good month to write, with several celebrations honoring and encouraging writing.
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The Entrepreneurship of Writing: Guest Post from Avery Phillips
As with any other group of creative individuals who attempt to live off their art, writers experience many obstacles and challenges in writing for a living. Writing for money is often an entrepreneurial feat: those who attempt to sell their writing must know the business and know how to sell themselves along with their writing … Read more
10 Reasons Why Organized Home Space Can Boost Your Writing Creativity: Guest Post from Helen Bradford
Writing is more than just sitting at your computer and typing; that much is clear to all. But what many people don’t know and is hard for writers to explain is that it requires special conditions just like any other creative job. Even though creative mess is a term we all use when trying to … Read more
Choosing Your Niche: A Guide for Beginners—Guest Post from Kate Thora
Becoming a writer always starts with a bit of soul-searching. If you want to make it in the world of creative writing, you need to have something that will make you stand out from the pack. You can either focus on developing a distinctive style or write about controversial topics. But first of all, you … Read more
National Author’s Day
November 1 is National Author’s Day. Don’t ask me why it’s author’s rather than authors’. While we honor all authors on this day, maybe it’s author’s to remind us to show our appreciation to one author at a time. You can let your favorite author know how much you appreciate her or him by sending them … Read more
Writing Poetry—Yay or Nay? Guest Post from Susanne Loxton
Writing poetry for enjoyment as well as publishing it for the world to see might serve as a great way of testing your writing skills in a new environment and sharing your personal experiences and observations with others. However, the field of poetry is an industry of its own, and writing poems for your own … Read more
The Ubiquitous and Elusive Apostrophe
After reading my last post about random capitalization, a friend asked me on Facebook to write about apostrophes. Since the apostrophe is such an abused punctuation mark, I agreed. How can the apostrophe be both ubiquitous (everywhere) and elusive (hard to find)? The apostrophe, if not exactly ubiquitous, certainly shows up in many places it … Read more
The Plague of Random Capitalization
As an editor, I encounter the same problems over and over again, regardless of the genre or the writer. One persistent problem is random capitalization. Although this is common from writers of all kinds, I find it most often in business writing. I think it’s part of many corporate cultures, and the people who see … Read more