Did you know? The first step on the moon by astronaut Neil Armstrong was with his left foot, The Book of Bizarre Truths reveals. . In corporate blogging training sessions, I often recommend including interesting tidbits of information on topics related to your business (or, if you’re a freelance blog content writer, tidbits related […]
This week, our Say It For You blog is sharing insights gained from the book The Writer’s Resource , by Day and McMahan…. “Analysis is always a part of effective problem solving,” the authors assert. Take any topic, isolate the parts, and think about them one by one, they advise. Why is it so hard […]
“You know what descriptive writing is, The Writer’s Resource authors Day and McMahan say. “It makes you smile or sigh, brings tears to your eyes, makes you say to yourself, ‘Yes, that’s just it’” Good descriptive details are welcome in almost any kind of writing, they add. “Amen to that”, we believe at Say […]
Is your business blog reader’s tummy rumbling? In this month’s Writers Digest, ten winners were announced. Contestants had been given a photo prompt showing a grocery store aisle and asked to write the opening line of a story based on that prompt. My personal two favorites were these: “My tummy rumbles as I […]
In a Say It For You blog post last week, I mentioned the ongoing debate about the use of the two pronouns “you” and “we” in marketing messages. While many respondents to a Corporate Visions survey had said they used we-phrasing deliberately to position themselves as trusted partners with their customers, a set of experiments […]
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