WritingThoughts

Recently I came across a copy of The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide (affiliate link, I receive a small fee for each book purchased). It’s basically a book that teaches the business person how to create an effective business plan. I’m actually reading this book as part of a project for one of my […]

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Recently (the term is relative) two fellow bloggers nominated me for the Thinking Blogger Award. A special thank you for giving WritingThoughts the award goes to: Drawing On Words Mom and More I’m really honored by such a nomination. I feel like we have a community here that sparks conversation and helps us all to […]

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Here are some of this week’s interesting posts about writing: Adventures in Copywriting discusses the proper use of testimonials. An excellent piece about how to get good testimonials for your marketing pieces. Copybogger talks about using heroes in business blogs. It’s a great concept that I’d like to see more about. Lorelle on WordPress published […]

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What do you think? Should teens work part-time during the summer and after school? Arguments in favor of teens working include: Teaches kids responsibility Teaches kids to handle money Gives kids extra spending money Arguments against teens working include: May expose teens to dangerous work environments May distract from schoolwork May allow kids just enough […]

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It’s a freelancer’s worst nightmare! Thirty days had come and gone since I sent the invoice for my work and still I had received no payment. Even though this particular dollar amount wasn’t the bulk of my receivables for the previous month, it was still significant enough (several hundred dollars) to cause concern. All kinds of paranoid thoughts […]

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As I edit other people’s work I notice a lot of redundant phrases. Actually, the problem of redundancy is a good reason to have a second set of eyes look at your writing. It’s hard for a writer to recognize the problem for himself or herself. Typically, when two words that mean the same thing […]

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The group writing project results are in for Robert Hruzek’s What I Learned From Travel group project. You’ve probably already read my entry. Here are the other entries: What I Learned From . . . Travel and Diversity, by Karin H. at Stop/Start What I Learned From Travel, by Benjamin Penfold-Marwick at Hello Internet What […]

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This is my entry into Robert Hruzek’s group writing project on what I learned from travel. With apologies to Robert, I’m going to expand on the theme a little bit and share what I learned about writing from travel. That’s right, this is a writing blog so I’ve decided to integrate writing into the project. […]

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I live in a country founded on words. Well, really on ideas. But ideas can’t come to fruition without the right words. If you doubt the importance of words, read the words of the Declaration of Independence. Words are important. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Contents (c) Copyright 2007, Laura Spencer. All rights […]

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Here are some highlights from around the blogosphere: Lillie just finished a fabulous series on E-books. Here’s the first installment Mike discusses the importance of writing every day Joanna has published a blog spelling test Yvonne discusses the difference between brand and topic Don’t forget the new group writing project at Middle Zone Musings! Contents […]

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