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5 Tips to Handle Internet Writing Like a Professional

5 Tips to Handle Internet Writing Like a Professional

Aug 20, 2012

When print journalism started to lose market share to the Internet, classically trained journalists weren’t shy about criticizing the quality of the content published there. Content farms outsourced cheap articles that were search optimized, and with Blogspot anyone could become an...

Online Voice: Consistency and Personality

Online Voice: Consistency and Personality

Apr 2, 2012

One of the more confusing aspects of quality content production is finding your online voice. Having a specific and consistent online voice is always a guideline given by editors when you guest blog, and you’ll often see voice cited as the strong point of some of the most successful...

An Open Letter to Indie Writers: Cross Promotion Works

An Open Letter to Indie Writers: Cross Promotion Works

Mar 23, 2012

As independent writers, it sometimes feels as if we are lost in the jungle, far beneath the canopy where the light makes ordinary folk like us visible. We carry with us our backpack full of books, as it were—our canon—yet have no readers with whom to share our words. And no matter how...