Sometimes it seems like your Muse decides to ignore your invitations…and that affects your blogging. If you learn to “make nice” with your Muse, you’ll see your productivity increase. In this guest post, Jennifer Brown Banks (@PENPROSPER1) discusses why your Muse might take leave and how to bring it back so you remain a productive […]
5 Ways to “Woo” Readers to Your Blog
Good bloggers know how to “attract” readers. They develop a strong relationship with the visitors to their sites. And they do this in the way they compose each post. In this guest post, Jennifer Brown Banks (@PENPROSPER1) offers relationship advice for bloggers. You’ll find it useful as you woo your readers. Do you woo your […]
6 Vocal Tips to Help Writers Cultivate Voice
Most writing classes eventually teach “voice.” Writers need to find their own voice, and blogging can help achieve that end. But there are other ways to discover your voice as a writer—and to cultivate it. Today, Jennifer Brown Banks (@PENPROSPER1), serves as your vocal coach and give bloggers “voice lessons” gleaned from the music industry. […]
How to Engage Your Whole Brain When You Blog
Are you right brained or left brained or whole brained? Do you have any idea what that even means? As a blogger and writer, your success does not depend on upon the side of you brain you use most. However, it’s possible that your ability to use both sides of your brain—even at the same […]
How to Enter Blogger’s Paradise
You started a blog, and thought that would send you to blogger’s paradise. You imagined that blogging would quickly help you earn an income, create visibility for yourself and your work, and even attract an agent and a book deal. But now you are in blogger’s hell. Your blog feels like the bane of your […]
5 Alternative Ways to Create Writing and Blogging Success
How do you blog a book or become a successful blogger? This question typically is met with practical and tactical advice. But there are other ways to help yourself become an author and produce a high-trafficked blog. And they have little to do with publishing frequency, SEO, promotion, and copywriting. In my new book, Creative […]
Blog Post Length Revisited
What’s the best blog post length? I get asked this question over and over again, and my answers stay basically the same despite the changing content marketing world. I recently spoke on a marketing panel at a writing conference. All the speakers said the same thing: It’s important to have a blog and to publish […]
6 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Blogging
Writers write. That’s the adage, right? But sometimes—more often than you care to admit—writers don’t write. You know it’s true. Like me, sometimes when you sit down at your computer to work (which means “write” or “blog”), you don’t do anything close to producing work. You don’t type a word—except in a Facebook update, a […]
How to Reduce Formatting Time Using Scrivener
I write a lot of blog posts every week, so I’m always looking for ways to speed up my process. Although most of my posts don’t feature tons of graphics or charts, formatting adds time—sometimes more than I predict. I can reduce this particular time-suck if I format my posts in Scrivener using MultiMarkdown language. […]
6 Tips to Help Writers Cultivate Voice
Do you feel you have a distinct voice as a blogger and writer? If not, you need to develop one…fast! Without a distinct voice, your message disappears among the millions of other voices trying to be heard in the blogosphere. And you want your voice to be heard…and recognized…easily and quickly. Like a vocal coach, […]
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