Technical writer, journalist and author
A new year brings new resolutions, such as these for organizing your writing workspace. 1. Master your clutter. When paper comes across your desk, you have one of four options: You can address the issue (for example, responding to a…
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Articles serve many purposes. They can inform, educate, and help persuade. Yet popular misconceptions about articles exist. Some of them include: 1. Articles are written with the intention that they are meant for the media only. It is true that…
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A book trailer video is similar to a movie trailer you would see at your local theatre. (Or, for that matter, a television commercial promoting an upcoming show.) The difference, obviously, is that a book trailer promotes a book, and…
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You want to promote an upcoming event, so you create a flyer that you think will do the job—something that not simply informs but promotes, and the flyer fails to do so. Has this happened to you? Recently a friend…
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A homonym is one of two or more words with the same pronunciation, and the same spelling, but different meanings. For example, the word “bank,” is a homonym, as in: “The campground is on the bank of the river.” (That…
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Many writers have written books about how (and why) they write. Some offer tips on how they edit their work and how they go about getting feedback from others. Feedback is always good. But there are other interesting things that…
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News releases remain an important element of an effective communication strategy. Yet with all the technological changes going on, they can often be overlooked. Some questions people ask about news releases include: 1. Aren’t news releases obsolete? No, news releases…
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In a world of increasingly complex products and services, users often want to just “strap it on and go,” as test pilots might say. They’re not interested in reading all the useful documentation that accompanies the product or explains how…
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A friend of mine lamented to me recently that she had a hard time writing articles. All she knew, she said, was to focus on the who, what, where, when, why, and how. Actually, that’s all she, or anyone else,…
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National Novel Writing Month—NaNoWriMo—is fast approaching. For the unfamiliar, the purpose of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. Signing up and participation is free. The NaNoWriMo web site enables you to track your work,…
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