WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Can You Hear That Feedback?
Welcome back from the weekend! First off, I want to thank Corey, our Associate Content Strategist over here at ideaLaunch, for helping fill in writing the Round-up for me while I had some personal...
View ArticleWriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Reading, Writing, and Rocking
Welcome back from the weekend! I am really bad at titles. I’ll admit that. Sometimes I spend longer trying to think of an effective, creative, thoughtful title than I do creating the content itself....
View ArticleWriterAccess Weekly Round-up: On Focus and Second-grade Comebacks
Welcome back from the weekend! And welcome back to the Round-up, in general. After Hurricane Irene, Labor Day, and a few guest posts by Associate Content Strategist Corey Eridon (who graciously filled...
View ArticleWriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Fashion Forward
Welcome back from the weekend! Not to start off your Monday on an angry note, but this blog from ProBlogger is from a man that makes $3,000 a month on his travel blog. And yes, this sounds like good news
View ArticleWriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Introducing Mia
Hello, I’m Mia, a “newb” here at ideaLaunch. I come from the editorial industry, but I’m very new to the world of content marketing. Honestly, these worlds aren’t far apart. Where I come from, I’ve...
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Survey Says: How To Improve Your Content Marketing Writing
We asked a bunch of our writers to answer this question: “How have you improved your writing career?” Our hope was they’d give us inspiring advice to share with other freelance content marketing...
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Meet Grammar Moses, Your Favorite Comic Villain You’ve Never Heard Of
Now that the Avengers movie that everyone’s been waiting on…since half of the whole comic character base was killed off in the first one…I’ve got a Marvel character I bet you haven’t heard of. Under...
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Your Guide To The Miami Writing Scene
Making a living as a copywriter and content marketer has never been easier in big cities like Miami. There are tons of great resources to use that will have you on your way to making a decent sized...
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Writer Tools for Success: Proofreading
In a perfect world, you would never have to proofread your own work. You could pass each assignment to an editor to receive insightful feedback and ideas for improvement. Your brain would delight in...
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How To Give Freelancers Feedback with Clarity and Kindness
The main barrier to communication is thinking you know what someone is thinking. We see this play out in all our interpersonal dynamics—assuming that someone is acting ill of us and retaliating. Or,...
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Horace Henry Hart’s Handy Rules for Writers
When I was on the mad dash to find out who was the guilty Brit responsible for the Oxford comma, I came across an interesting character. Horace Henry Hart, with his impressively alliterative name, was...
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How Paninis Begat the Language We Communicate With Today
Syntax. The rules and logic behind sentence structure and the way we spin a phrase. The word “syntax” was brought to you by the Ancient Greeks and also means coordination, together, or an ordering....
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Writer Tools For Success: Dealing With Rejection
Every profession, career, or even artistic hobby comes with a measure of rejection. After all, no one can be all things, provide all things for, or please all people all of the time. There will simply...
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What the Em Dash is Going On?!
Sometimes when you are writing, you feel the urge to—stop—like that. It’s called an em dash and the truth is, you really don’t know why. An em dash is, what exactly? The answer to that question is...
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Why Do We Procrastinate?
The pilot of the TV show Mad Men centers on Don Draper, procrastinating and deliberating what he’s going to write for a cigarette ad campaign. He asks random people working, socializing, or even...
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Surviving a Writer’s Existence: A How-to Guide for Leading a Seemingly Normal...
I’m not weird – I’m a writer. Sure, I sit in one spot for hours on end, drinking cold coffee. Yep, my office is wallpapered in sticky notes bearing story ideas. Yeah, people ask my husband if I’m okay...
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Give Writers Better Tools for Finding English Dialects
We want to take grammar back starting with a few of the most convoluted but well-rooted rules this grammarian has ever seen. Starting with different forms of English and how to decipher them. Check...
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The Comma Has Been Around for More than 500 Years – Are You Using It Right?
Commas have been around since the 15th Century, yet a lot of people don’t know how to use them. Do you? Birth of the Comma When Aldus Manutius was printing books in the 1490s, writers used the slash...
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Your Guide To The Miami Writing Scene
Making a living as a copywriter and content marketer has never been easier in big cities like Miami. There are tons of great resources to use that will have you on your way to making a decent sized...
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Writer Tools for Success: Proofreading
In a perfect world, you would never have to proofread your own work. You could pass each assignment to an editor to receive insightful feedback and ideas for improvement. Your brain would delight in...
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