There’s a profound quote from Ernest Hemingway I came across recently. It goes like this: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.» It made me chuckle the first time I read it. I can’t think of a better way to describe the creative process other than …
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Why do you get out of bed every morning to work? To make money, you’d likely respond. I love what I do, and I think it’s important, you might add. I get out of bed because no one else can do what I do. Even if it’s not the main motivating factor that drives you, …
As proclaimed by American writer Roy Peter Clark, “Grammar is the clothes that words wear.” There’s some degree of personal choice in grammar, but there are also rules and expectations. Think of grammar errors as walking through town with a mismatched pair of shoes: it’s not illegal, but it sure can be confusing. The mistakes …
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You’ve put in the work, and you’ve paid your dues, but your online content still isn’t ranking. There’s only one thing left to ask: why? There is a (frustratingly) large number of factors to keep straight when trying to rank on Google’s search results. If you’ve found yourself a bit lost in the sauce, you’re …
We want to let you in on a secret. The best writers aren’t the ones who can write the longest pieces. They aren’t the ones who choose the perfect words or the ones who produce content in minutes. No, the most distinguished and successful writers are those who struggle. Those who are invigorated by the …
Keyword research softwares like Semrush and AHrefs have a secret. You don’t need to use their products to do keyword research. In fact, only one company has concrete data about what people are Googling. That company is Google itself. In truth, you probably have everything you need to do free keyword research right now as …
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Top 6 Content Writing Pet Peeves Writing is hard. Plain and simple. Nevertheless, nearly everything we read in a day – Facebook posts, advertisements, social media captions, and even the words on the back of a cereal box – was written by humans. But that also means nearly everything we read is prone to …