How many hours does it take to write 8 pages of website copy?
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How many hours does it take to write 8 pages of website copy?
Well, it goes without saying that if you can avoid it, don’t charge by the hour. But the larger point I’m making here is: It takes so much longer to do something than you think it does.
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“Place the emphatic word in a sentence at the end, period.”
Shakespeare didn’t write in “Macbeth,” “The Queen is dead, my Lord.” He wrote, “The Queen, my lord, is dead.”
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Don’t play.
விளையாடாதே!
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Shark Tank taught me to accept myself as a ‘writer’.
I learned that you don’t need to be the next Tesla. You can do great even if you invented a better kitchen scrub.
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Empty words.
“This government sucks,” someone said with an exasperated sigh. May be, but what do you mean?
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Choose your tools wisely.
If you’re going to ideate on a spreadsheet, you will think in rows and columns. So, choose your tools wisely.
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Your secret to writing with focus: A stickie note.
When you’re writing about a ‘topic’, the possibilities are endless — and that’s precisely the problem.
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Writing in first person.
Contrary to what people typically assume, I think writing in first person lends a certain humility to the work I do.
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Write like you mean it.
Everyone is a writer. We write emails, tweets, meeting agendas, presentations, chat conversations — most of our day goes in writing. But very few of us think of it as an actual skill.