Piecing Together Your Writing Future
Copywriting is a skill that can afford you a great living wage, if you know the proper techniques
The world descends into chaos. The police are running rampant through the streets. Memes are more powerful than bullets. Snide comments on Facebook remind you to add an ‘e’ at the end of ‘your.’ While the grammar police may have...
Coffee at Night? Finding Out the Best Time to Write, for You When you write is almost as important as what you write. (okay, I use the term almost loosely) It may seem like a simple question to answer: When...
For the final daily writing prompt this week on copywriting, we will take a look (and practice) one more basic strategy. In case you are taking this week in reverse-chronological order, we have covered quite a bit. We started by...
As we continue this week of copywriting introductions, let us continue with writing formulas. I want to point out one thing, and hopefully this little thing will stick in your mind a bit. Copywriting is a job, and as a...
More copywriting? More copywriting. Today’s main blog post helped define the term copywriting and is a crash course into the introduction of the craft. This week on the daily writing prompts, we have looked at ads and the AIDA approach....
Let’s start off with a base assumption. I will assume you have zero idea what copywriting is. I’ll assume you found out the term did not mean that small print explaining your rights and terms of agreement. Now, I will...
Let’s continue our progress with copywriting! If you missed the first day, we covered spotting the customer journey through an advertisement or blog post. Usually in an attempt to get them to take an action. AIDA is one of the...
One thing we haven’t done a whole lot of here on the blog, is talk about copywriting. I figured I would dedicate this week to the craft and hopefully help some of you decide if this is a career you...
Voice is imperative. It’s essential. It is everything. It is quite possible to have one of the greatest storylines ever created, the vast lands, the adorable and lovable characters, the perfect plot twists and the greatest ending ever penned by...
As we continue to look at how your particular skills can earn you money, we also remind you to keep thinking in terms of larger numbers. Your mindset is more important than you realize. Did you miss the first post...
While it is a catchy headline, the fact remains that you, sitting there reading this right now, have everything you need to earn a million dollars. Of course, I will tell you right now that it isn’t easy to earn...
When you first start a writing career, you will have high hopes, a lot of drive and a whole lot of gumption. (Man, I love that word). The world of freelance writing is an alluring one. You will hear all...
Word Count Goals and How to Make Them It’s all around you as a writer: set your word count goals and stick to them. Writing goals, words per day goals, hours per session goals, and on and on and Scooby...
Greetings fellow kids! Today’s writing prompt is designed to get you to think about titles. This can (and does) include things like chapter titles, scene headings and project titles for the novelist and screenwriters out there. It also includes headings...
On the 12th day of writing prompts, my true love gave to me, 12 writing prompts, 11 writing lessons, 10…(trails off). Not only am I starting today’s prompt with some silliness, I am also going to read your mind. Ready...
Shall we continue our New Year’s tradition with the 11th writing prompt of the year? Yes! Okay, then. This lesson is geared to ALL writing types. I don’t care if it is poetry, copywriting, novels, those notes you make on...
As writers, we tend to have this belief in ourselves that can only come from the inside. It is a great thing. That little voice inside that tells us “You can do it, this is fantastic, keep going!” It’s that...
Literary agents, publishers, editors, synopses, query letters… all scary things, all demanding, demeaning. Sometimes they can be daunting, haunting, loathing as well as loathed. Oftentimes heartbreaking, disconcerting, dispiriting. None of them hold a candle to yourself. You truly are your...
Get Organized! Boost Productivity! Overcome Struggles! Does this sound like some sales pitch? It should. I’m trying to sell you some good shit. No need to meet behind a convenience store and swap brown paper bags, though. What I have...
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