Write (Your) Stories Now
6 Ways to Easily Find Content Topics
Recently, a colleague and I talked about writing content. She understands the value of adding new blog posts, fresh content, on her website, but, but, but . . . she hesitated and then she said: “I'd love to learn more about how to plan blog content out - I'll be...
How to Create a Beautiful, Useful Business Writing Practice
Developing a Writing Practice Writing practice . . . Some entrepreneurs come to this activity with zeal and happiness. Others among us would rather not have to write at all, but the truth is that the online world of business contains a lot of language...
Writing Prompt: Promises. Promises.
Who hasn’t made or received promises? Promises made and kept. Promises made and broken. Promises ignored while others were cherished. Promises intact and others long forgotten. It’s easy to offer a promise, but often difficult to keep them. The topic of promises is a...
Share Your Business Story
When my clients ask me how they should describe what they do through content writing (blog posts and web pages, for instance) I tell them to tell a business story. Stories arouse people’s emotions (and there's plenty of scientific data that shows what chemicals our...
Dialogue writing tips for the business (and fiction) writer
Why would you want to learn how to write dialogue when you’re a business owner who writes to be seen online? I mean, you're not an actual fiction writer, are you? For the same reason fiction writers should study poetry and essayists should study short story. When you...
A prompt to showcase your writing genius, 4.21.16
Writing prompts help us deliver the goods, our genius, our innate talents, don’t they? They stop the monkey mind chatter and with a loving but firmly guiding hand, they help us knuckle down, apply pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and push out some of the loveliest...
Prepositional Phrases and Your Writing
Prepositions and prepositional phrases. Have you ever noticed how wonderful they are? They provide us a sense of our characters’ position and place relative to the rest of the world. They allow us to go with them around the bend in the road, over the fence, and beyond...
How to Write Content When Life Becomes Difficult
This has been a difficult week in which to work, write content, and just be. My sister, Barbara Jean, succumbed to a horrible disease called Friedreich’s Ataxia, a genetic condition. She had been ill for a very long time, losing her ability to walk, to use her arms to...
Write stories that are remarkable, fascinating, and powerful
When people ask me how they can improve their marketing copy, I tell them to write stories that are remarkable, fascinating, and powerful. Start with your own story, I say, about how you helped your client, why you started your company, and when it became obvious that...
A Prompt for the New Year
Prompts are tools that encourage creative thinking. From a simple, single word up to a paragraph or so in length, prompts are not difficult to understand, or at all complicated. That’s done on purpose. You want your creative self to receive just enough of a nudge that...
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