I’ve updated this post for 2018. Check out the new version now. With brands producing more and more content, you can’t afford to just be on the ball. You need to be running in front of it. How can you
Writing about the past – a project you’ve completed, an experience you want to share in a blog post, or a professional accomplishment – is supposed to be easy. So why do you sometimes get confused about whether you need
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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
Have you ever read one your draft blog posts 10 times and realized only on that tenth round of review that there was a glaring typo in the post? If you have, you may remember wondering how on Earth you
You may find that there are some things you do almost automatically when you write. For example, you probably always capitalize the word “I” no matter where it appears in a sentence, and you probably always place a period, question
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If you think you’re a weak writer, you may think that there isn’t much you can do about it. After all, when it comes to being a strong writer, you either have what it takes or you don’t. Right? We
Imagine this: you’re completely in the zone and making stellar progress on writing your next blog post only to come to a grinding halt because you can’t figure out whether to use “who” versus “that” in a sentence. Before you
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