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The Need for Speed: Five Tips for Faster Writing

Guest Post by Carson Brackney

This post is not about trade-offs (real and imagined) involving quantity and quality.

It’s not about the relative merits of considerate, elegantly constructed prose and high-volume, machine gunfire output.

This post is practical.

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Writing Content and Eating Lamb

by Carson Brackney

I hate lamb.  I don’t like it with mint jelly (double my displeasure).  I don’t like the lamb ribs at Jackstack’s.  I’d rather spend my life choking down NJ diner scrapple or San Antonio street fair tripe tacos than to force another spoonful of mutton past my tongue.

Obviously, lamb isn’t for everyone.

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TM, SM, and R – What’s a Writer to Do?

penguintm1By Writer Wrangler Writer Rhonda Day

What’s up with all of these symbols and why does it matter anyway?

As a writer, it is essential to know how to properly use the trademark, service mark, and registered symbols. The proper usage of symbols is important for articles, blog posts, Adsense blurbs, and everything that will be read by someone else.

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Doing the Impossible: Providing Quality Content

by Carson Brackney

156_flying_blind_pLet’s get the obvious stuff out of the way…

In terms of online success, content is critical. That’s why people are willing to pay you to write.

Furthermore, good content is important. We can all come up with a nice long list of reasons why businesses should invest in high quality material. No matter how sick you may be of hearing it, that “good content is king” thing is true.

Finally, none of us have a convincing way of defining the amorphous concept of “quality content”. We try, but at least four things prevent us from constructing a clear, brightline definition: (more…)