CopyBlogger has a great post today called: Just Say No to These Three Enemies of Clear and Direct Writing. Although I find the title a bit unwieldy, perhaps violating his rules against both something called metadiscourse and pretentiousness, the points are well taken.
Another way to sum it up might be: Keep it simple! It’s amazing […]
RedInked is one of the blogs I wish I were writing. A collaboration of three women who started the blog some 19 posts ago, they not only speak wisely and with wisdom about writing and words, but they have the most amazing links! How else might I have found out about Chocolate and Zucchini or […]
Sometimes I think the world is divided into two types of folks… those who, like me, love the big picture and those who are good with a ton of small details. It’s the latter that make good copy editors.
I’ve recently been reminded how important detail people are. As I headed up the effort to stage […]
Don’t you just hate it when you start a major cleaning project and in the middle you realize you won’t get it completed until at least tomorrow, and maybe even the day after tomorrow? I’ve got one of those going, and while I’m glad to see the progress, I hate the mess on the floor […]
Welcome to the August 10, 2006 edition of about freelance writing blog carnival. Some darn good information here!
Joe Kissell presents
Matt Inglot presents
There you have it… another great writing carnival by some great bloggers. Submit your blog article to the next edition of
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Scott Nesbitt over at Words on a Page has a great quote today.
It reminds me of when I was part of an artist’s community – writers, artists and boat workers lived on boats in a low income housing coop on boats. One of the artists had a show opening I attended and it was the […]
Probably two years ago, I urged a group I belong to to take on their World Conference in 2006. As fate would have it, about 18 months ago I was made chair of the committee. Since then, until July, we’ve been meeting monthly and doing our business in a fairly leisurely fashion. Starting last month, […]
“Creative Content Maven for Hire” Meryl K. Evans graces us with an outstanding series of tips in her Rules for Writing for the Web Still Steadfast. It’s a great overview of what makes web, and blog, writing effective.
In fact, her rules for web writing are worth a gander even if you never write on the […]
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