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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Picture your blog as a storefront in a crowded section of town. People come in, browse around, read some of your content, hopefully buy something, then leave. The attention feels good, but how do you know they’ll be back again? Or better yet–back for good? The answer is more subtle than you think. For starters, […]
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