“I’m not sure who started encouraging writers to ‘write about what you know’”, observes novelist and literature professor Elan Barnehama. At first glance it makes sense, he admits. The problem is, he says, the story is always better served by the narrative that could happen when you don’t have constraints. That doesn’t mean he can’t […]
"As a writer, you spend much of your writing time alone," says Mary McCauley Smith of Absolute Write. "You may have thought this peculiarity went hand-in-hand with the writer's life, but perhaps it runs deeper than that. Maybe you are an 'innie'," she suggests, referring to the Myers-Briggs preference for introversion. Sorry, Ms. Smith, but […]
July fourth, 2012 was a big news day. Capping more than fifty years of research, the European Center for Nuclear Research announced they’d found the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle”, which gives all other particles their mass. “Scientists and journalists scrambled to tell the public exactly what the Higgs boson was and what it […]
Every industry or profession can be approached in different ways, and blog content writing for a business or professional practice is the perfect way to offer a “bi-partisan” presentation of the issues. As a trainer in corporate blog writing, I know how crucial it is to differentiate yourself and clarify the special “slant” you have […]
The Book of Times includes facts on how long things take, how long they last, and how often they happen. Always on the lookout for interesting insights about corporate blogging for business, I first learned of author Lesley Alderman’s fixation with counting stuff through my favorite magazine, Mental Floss, and of course couldn’t resist the […]
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