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I have a hard time when people tell me they aren’t good at writing. It makes me very sad that they haven’t recognized yet that everyone is a writer. We all write daily. There is hardly a person out there who doesn’t grab a pen and paper every day. You may be asking, “If I…

You may know by now that I am a copywriter by trade; it’s what I’ve done for many years. I won’t give away my age, but I will give away some tips on how to find the best copywriter for your business. Three Traits for a Good Copywriter Notice how I did not put anything…

One of the hardest parts about being a writer is that because I’ve done it for a living, I can forget to do it for healing purposes. Those who write as their skill chose it because they love it. But they don’t just love it, they need it. We journal, we don’t vent. We text,…

I want to talk a little about my time as a copywriter when I worked for an agency I quickly came to resent. This is a message for copywriters out there who write for the love of it and have an emotional tie to what they produce. Because we all treat our writing pieces as…

My experience here is writing self-published books. If you’re looking for an agent and to be published with a major company, then this is not the blog for you. However, if you’re experienced in your field, expert or not, then you have a message to deliver. It is your right to give people information that…

Everyone is a writer. Writers all over the world say the same thing. It does not matter if you write well, with perfect grammar, or if you write sloppily. Are the words your own? Then you are a writer. I have spent years avoiding putting content out there because I was afraid I wasn’t a…

Many SEO agencies love to boast how great they are at writing SEO copy, but this comes with a few problems. I’m going to talk about those problems, but first I need to explain a little bit about what SEO is and how it relates to blogging or any written content. The key here is…

One reason I know I am a writer is because I transcribe every educational book I read. Do you? Why do we do that? I read an article, maybe last year, that mentioned how people who write notes when they read something are more likely to retain knowledge. I wish I can remember where I…

The advice, “write what you know”, came from Mark Twain to encourage people to embody their own personal experiences in their writing. Is this bad advice or was he spot on? To answer this question immediately, I’d say he was one hundred percent correct. There’s a but, here. You may be limiting yourself to an…

If you’ve read my blog posts then you know they vary away from just 500 words. That’s not a strategy; I’m literally writing as many words as it takes to get my message across. That could be 500 words, that could also be 1300 words. I don’t have a measurement, but I do keep to…