CategoryWriting Content

A guest post by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com. Image by [phil h] We are all storytellers. Whether we’re writing a blog, an ebook, a cheesy novel or a killer screenplay, even an essay, article or report. Without some semblance of a story at the heart of it all, what’s left ...more

Guest post by Nicholas Cardot from Site Sketch 101. When I was a child I often traveled to magical faraway lands, explored daring new worlds, violently clashed swords with famous pirates, adventured with a talking mouse named Ralph, and traveled through the very fabric of time itself. I’ve raced around ...more

And now for a guest post with a difference from Cartoonist Mark Anderson from Andertoons.com who created this comic to illustrate the writing techniques he uses to create his cartoons, and how they can help bloggers push through writer’s block.

As we continue to explore principles of successful blogging I want to turn our attention to a matter at the heart of the topic – content. Much could be said on the topic but in the presentation that sparked my principles of successful blogging series of posts I spoke at ...more

As part of Best of ProBlogger 2009 series – today I want to look at the topic of ‘writing content’ and present a series of posts that went live this year on how to create compelling blog content – after all, it’s a cornerstone of successful blogging that bloggers simply ...more

This week, on a busier than normal day, I Tweeted that I wish there were more hours in a day (or that there was a pause button so that time could stand still for a bit so I could catch up). The tweet was of course an attempt at humor ...more

A guest post by bestselling novelist Larry Brooks from Storyfix.com. Sports analogies rock. They certainly can and often do lean toward the cliché, but like even the most trite of clichés, they’ve earned that dubious label because they’re valid. The use of cliché in copywriting, not so good. The use ...more

A Guest Post by David Risley Except yours, of course. ;) However, there are a lot of bloggers who feel this way. You write. You write some more. You don’t feel as if you’re getting the traction that you want. What’s going on? There is plenty to be said about ...more

Yesterday was my first day back at blogging after a 10 day vacation with my family and on Twitter I commented that I was finding it a little hard to get my brain back into blogging mode. @Mikeachim responded by suggesting I write a post on the daily rituals that ...more