In this time of Coronavirus anxiety, it was good to read the TIME piece “Fear can Fuel You” by Hallie Levine. Anxiety in short bursts and in the right amounts, Levine observes, may have gotten a bad rap, because healthy stress can motivate people to: fulfill tasks accomplish goals achieve results improve memory improve short […]
Is a blog a literary genre? Kevin Eagan poses that question in his own blog, critical margins, admitting he doesn’t have a definitive answer. Blog content writers, he muses, are a “relatively fixed point in this constant interaction with the ideas and facts of the exterior world.” (Wow! Love that description of the work we […]
“No matter your genre, readers are drawn to the unexpected,” asserts Jessica Strawser in Writers’ Digest. Strawsers’ talking to novelists, explaining that “once you’ve established who your story’s players are, it’s actually out of character behavior that can propel them in more interesting ways.” Out-of-character behavior adds depth and complexity, which adds interest, Strawser goes […]
Holly Sutton lists spelling and grammar errors as #4 among the eleven common mistakes bloggers make in their first year, but as a blog content writing trainer, I find, grammar errors are all too common even among experienced bloggers. With social distancing having left many of us content writers with extra time on our […]
Of the 11 common mistakes bloggers make in their first year, blogger Holly Sutton observes, one of those is making too many spelling and grammar errors. As a blog content writing trainer, I find, grammar errors are all too common even among experienced bloggers. So, reasoning that social distancing requirements have left many content writers […]
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