Alas.
After all this time, you’ve crafted something great.
Starting from those ideas in your head, you’ve self-educated, planned, prepared, procrastinated, anticipated, taken notes and finally started writing, rewriting and editing.
And now, there you sit, eager and excited, steward of your final product–your content.
Will they love it or hate or think it’s just okay? Will they be back for more? Where will your content take you?
The answers to these questions will never be known until you click that little button labeled “Publish.”
For some, pushing it is too much risk to bear. For others, it’s all too easy. What is it for you?
If you’re facing the button, let me tell you what’s going to happen after you click it: [click to continue…]
It’s time for Wordful to move up the ranks of blogging.
Instead of solely focusing on ways to be more expressive, free-thinking and creative with your blog, I’d like to put more energy into how you can build your blog into a viable media publication. This implications of this shift have huge upside potential, as it follows blogging’s natural evolution towards mainstream publishing.
A Brief History of Blogging
In the beginning, blogs provided soapbox-like platforms for personal expression (Blogging 1.0). Then, a few smart bloggers started posting useful content and hustling for readers. From this they built traffic and loyal audiences and began making money. Enter the blogging goldrush. [click to continue…]
For those of you who think blogging is too much work, you’re almost right. Growing a successful blog requires about 30 different disciplines, all of which can take a good 10,000 hours to master. So where to begin?
The most simple trick to blogging efficiency is to prioritize your work. This means you need to identify and concentrate on what matters most with your blog. And for everyone, the answer should always be the same:
Your Content Matters Most
Ask any top blogger or social media guru what the most important aspect of content marketing is and they’ll unanimously tell you it’s your content. I’m here to tell you the same thing: content matters most. [click to continue…]
Two weeks ago I woke up to a suspicious pingback in my Wordpress dashboard linking to my one-page business plan post. Sure enough, when I checked it out, there was my post–plagiarized word for word on a scraper site.
The first reaction of any hard-working blogger being plagiarized is to get angry, which I did. But then what? If you do a Google search on “blogging plagiarism,” you’ll more or less get these recommendations: [click to continue…]
by Charles on June 12, 2009 |
in Writing
Try snuffing the word “that” from your writing. Most of the time, you don’t need it.
This sentence:
She knew that she loved him and he knew that he loved her, too.
can be reduced to:
She knew she loved him and he knew he loved her, too.
This tiny change will tighten your writing and make it sound smoother, too. From Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style,”page 78:
The ear, for example, must decide when to omit “that” from a sentence, when to retain it. “She knew she could do it” is preferable to “She knew that she could do it”—simpler and just as clear.
Of course, don’t always cut “that” out. Again, Strunk and White:
But in many cases the that is needed. “He felt that his big nose, which was sunburned, made him look ridiculous.” Omit the that and you have “He felt his big nose…”
Remember this advice the next time you write. You’ll be thankful soon enough.
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