We’re willing to bet that a lot of you made a goal to start a blog or to blog more consistently this year. We’re also willing to bet that a lot of you see one big thing that’s standing
Imagine that you’ve just arrived home from a vacation where everything that could have gone wrong did. Your all-to-cheery sister wants to hear all of your stories and see all of your pictures, but all you can do is vent:
Imagine eating your way through half of your leftover holiday treats only to feel sick 20 minutes later. (Your body doesn’t like what you just did to it, and you better bet that it’s going to tell you). You might
It’s 9 a.m. You sit down at your computer to write your next blog post, ebook, or report. Eager to hammer out a draft so you can move on to other tasks, you place your fingers on the keyboard and
Most of us were raised to believe that arrogance is a bad thing. And it is – no one wants to hire an arrogant person. But what happens when you bend over backwards to avoid sounding arrogant when you write?
Are you looking at the sentence in the image above and feeling stumped about what the problem is? You’re probably not the only one. The sentence has the unfortunate fate of containing a dangling modifier. In today’s blog post, we’ll
Do you have a habit of rambling, not just when you speak but also when you write? Maybe you know you need to learn how to write concise sentences and paragraphs but just don’t know how. Or maybe you’re a
If you’re like a lot of people, and especially a lot of women, you may have a tendency to be overly accommodating in emails. And this comes from a good place. You know that your thoughts can get lost in
Have you ever finished drafting a one-pager, report, or social media profile only to find out that you’re hundreds of words or characters over your limit? Or maybe you’re not working with a word limit, but you get the sense
Have you ever written website copy, a blog post, or a report and felt like your sentences just didn’t hang well together? Maybe you had all of the right words and ideas on the page but your sentences seemed more