He Said, She Said: Grammar and Options in Dialogue
We all have habits, things we do repeatedly and automatically, usually without thinking. We buy the same clothes in the same colors. We order the same dish at a restaurant. We watch the same TV programs. Writers have habits too. Dedicating time to write each day is a good habit. Reading great works of literature is a good habit. But unthinking overuse of certain words is a bad habit. This lack of creativity often shows up as repetitive “dialogue tags” (verbs that indicate who is speaking)—usually the word “said.”
How to Make Your Online Content Interactive
Creating and posting content online can be lonely work. If you’ve got a website, blog, Facebook Page, or some other hub for your business, of course you’ll want to know whether people are reading (and enjoying!) what you post. But aside from the raw data that...
The Best Free Stock Photo Sites: How to Get Royalty-Free Images for All Your Creative Projects
We’ve all been there before. You’re working on a crackerjack creative project, but something’s missing. Maybe you’re designing the cover of your next self-published bestselling novel. Maybe you’re laying out a website for a client’s business. Maybe you want to...
Easy Blog Structure for Fun and Profit: 5 Great Blog Post Templates
I talk in this other blog post about how not knowing what to write is a kind of writer’s block that can grind your blogging to a halt. In this post, we’ll take a look at how not knowing how to write it can be another kind of writer’s block to plague your blogging...
How to Make a Content Calendar for Blogging Success
For many, many, MANY writers, the process of blogging begins like this: Step One: Realize you promised yourself you’d write a blog post today. Step Two: Sit down to write the blog post. Step Three: Stare at an empty screen and struggle to come up with an idea to write...
If you only had 21 days left to live, what would you want to accomplish before you go?
Multi-published author and journalist shares the step-by-step process to write nonfiction book like a pro.
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Mismanaged and overlooked by command, a group of soldiers must fight to survive in Afghanistan.
