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Writing

Jordan Gives Thumbs-Up To Ghostwriting

July 23, 2008

Katie Price, the British glamour model formerly known as Jordan, revealed that she doesn’t write her own books. Instead, she comes up with the concept and a ghostwriter fleshes it out.
‘I say how I want the storyline to be, each chapter is done, I read through it change it and then it goes away to [...]

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Great Week For Guest Blogging

July 18, 2008

It’s been a good week for me this week. In addition to getting repeat work from old clients and landing a couple of new gigs, I’ve had posts published on several blogs. These are professional blogging gigs, which means that people pay me to blog. Here are some of my posts from the past week:

Feeding [...]

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Five Things I Can Do That Are Not On My Resume

June 26, 2008

Men with Pens wrote today about how a great reputation can ruin your business, making the point that sometimes the work you publicize creates a particular image of the skills you have. It occurred to me that all of us have skills that we don’t promote, but which we use competently. Here are some of [...]

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June Work Update

June 20, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I thought I’d bring you up to date on what I’ve been doing in June.  I started the month with articles on eco-friendly travel in Florida, and wrote some new posts for Daily Writing Tips, where one of the posts that got the most attention was on [...]

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Writing About Social Media

May 23, 2008

I recently had the chance to write about one of my favourite social media/networking sites, Twitter. It’s amazing how much information is out there. Although I’m a Twitter user, I started out not knowing as much as I could have about what makes it tick. I knew a lot about how people used it, and [...]

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Hire Me To Write Your Press Release

May 7, 2008

If you can write the news, you can write a press release.  As I’ve shown in my posts on Daily Writing Tips, the techniques for writing news stories and press releases are identical. As a former journalist and editor, I have read and written plenty of press releases, and the secret is simple:

a killer headline
a [...]

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Writing About English

April 4, 2008

I think the English language is fascinating, which makes being a freelance writer even more fun. I love to play with words, coin new ones and find out what old ones mean. That’s why my gig at DailyWritingTips is perfect.

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Writing Tips For 2007

December 13, 2007

I have a regular gig writing posts on writing for Daily Writing Tips. Here’s a list of my posts so far this year.
There, Their, They’re
Contractions
Note Taking Tip
The Right Climate
Principle, Principal
Say What?
Not Nice At All
Word Subtraction
The Art Of Writing News
Why We Need Paragraphs
Spanish Loan Words
Writing For Magazines
How To Change Your Writing Style
On The QT
Four Tips For [...]

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