By Ejedegba Samuel There are some clichés that go with being a successful writer. A Chimamanda Adiche, for instance, might tell you that hard work and perseverance are prerequisites to becoming successful. But there are so many talented hard
There are a lot of blogs out there—and we mean a lot. In 2016, it was estimated that 2.7 million blog posts were published every day. Now that's a lot of blog posts. But it's not meant to discourage
Ah, the old enemy. Writer’s block can happen to anybody no matter how good a writer you are. From writers like Malcolm Gladwell to writers like the author of “Nkechi the bush girl.” Not just authors but musicians, speech
Most word processing programs have a built-in spell checker, but business correspondence still goes out with misspelled words that a checker would have caught. I’m not talking about words like bare and bear, which are both English words acceptable to an automatic
How many times have you sat in front of a blank screen staring at the pesky cursor, wondering why it’s so hard to write about yourself? I’ll bet it’s been more than once. Not to mention that the shift
The continued success of e-books is changing the way we read and write. As sales of e-books continue to increase, more authors are switching on to the idea of writing specifically for the e-book market. Yet the unique format
By Dan Shewan Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a marketer quite like being asked to write a blog post. Some marketers would rather wrestle with pivot tables (or grizzly bears) for days on end than write a
Writing is like painting a picture in your head. There are so many people who don't like writing. Whether it's because it takes too long, or you don't have enough energy. This article is to show the people who
Redundancy in a sentence is annoying, and it is also a nuisance. Conveying information in more than one way, or by repeating wording, is consciously or subconsciously distracting to the reader and contributes to compositional clutter. Note in the
After completing your article, draft, cover letter or resume should you send or post it immediately? People write with different goals in mind and hiring an editor could make the difference between success and failure. A poorly written document,
