WritingThoughts

If you’ve been following along for the past few weeks, you may have noticed that I’ve been listing the characteristics of a successful writer. We started with how approachable you are as a writer, moved on to your visibility, and today we’re talking about the importance of being careful. Why is being careful important to […]

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Too many freelance writers are invisible online, and it keeps them from getting the work they need. Did you ever notice how some freelance writers seem to be everywhere? No matter what social media, what forum, or what blog you read they seem to have a very visible presence there. Naturally, these visible writers are […]

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As a freelance writer, you want and need clients and prospective clients to contact you. Yet, some writers have made this contact nearly impossible. In this post, I’ll explain what it means to be an approachable writer and then describe several ways that writers place barriers between themselves and their potential clients (often without realizing […]

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By Leslie A. Joy Whether you’re a professional writer or just someone writing a blog, time is of the essence. The faster that you write, the more content you can turn out, the more money you can make, and the more time you’ll have for other things. Isn’t more time something we all want? Here […]

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Miscommunication–It’s the bane of every good writer, yet all too often it happens. What would you say if I told you that many communication problems that writers face could be traced to five common causes? You’d want to know those causes, wouldn’t you? Well, so did I–so I developed this list of problems that cause […]

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For the past few days, I’ve been using Google+, which (in case you haven’t been following the tech news) is Google’s much anticipated entry into social media. I’d never call myself a social media expert, but I do use social media as a tool to help market my freelance writing business and share my blogging […]

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What holds freelance writers (and especially new writers) back? It’s a fact that many new writers do not live up to their potential as a writer. Even experienced writers sometimes fail to meet their true potential. (Of course, few writers want to admit this fact, let alone discuss it.) Writers not living up to their […]

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Headline after headline proclaims the sad news–writing skills are deteriorating. Blame the texting. Blame social media. Blame the schools. Blame whoever or whatever you want–it doesn’t really matter. The facts are the same. The sad truth is that if you can’t write well you’ll have fewer opportunities in life. Communication skills are key to success.

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Don’t get me wrong. I happen to think the conversational writing style is the greatest thing to hit business writing since the word processor. (Well, almost…) But, there are some definite hazards associated with using a conversational style.

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Some would argue that there’s no difference at all. Indeed, the lines between article blog posts are becoming increasingly blurry. (Yes, I still prefer to tack the word “posts” on the end, with a blog being the site where the posts are published. I am aware that some writers refer to their posts as “blogs.”) […]

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