Melanie Saxton

JUNE 16, 2023

As a digital writer, law blogger, book editor for attorneys, and journalist covering legal topics, it was a distinct honor to interview two giants in the personal injury and Christian trial lawyer realm. What followed was an interesting article published in Katy Christian Magazine. Some are under the impression that they should not sue.

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Content Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And how did we get to the turning tide we’re witnessing now, with AIO writers replacing SEO writers? Enter: the AIO writer. 2011: Panda Update & Mobile-Friendly Websites Become Essential for Rankings In 2011, Google released its Panda update which targeted low-quality content and penalized websites containing it.

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Copywriter Collective

AUGUST 20, 2024

More than that, I didn’t realize I wasn’t a copywriter but an SEO writer. As an SEO writer, you need to optimize content so users will find what they are looking for. With that in mind, SEO writers change the approach to choosing and placing target keywords in content. Gone are those days. But it isn’t.

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Moz

AUGUST 6, 2019

Posted by Victor_Ijidola It’s easy to find writers; they’re everywhere — from a one-second Google search to asking on LinkedIn. And you do not just need writers, you need exceptional SEO content writers. A writer with these two skills is a great SEO writer. But hiring the best ones?

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Launched in late 2022, the Smart Blogger Jobs Board is the go-to destination for writers, bloggers, content marketers, copywriters, etc. With 18 million freelancers and 5 million clients, a new freelance writer can find it tough to break into the market. Experienced writers use FlexJobs for its vetting feature.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s open to writers in nine languages across 11 genres. From Malaysia, Claudia Tan is a new adult romance writer, graduating from Lancaster University with a BA in English Literature and History. The story won a Watty Award in 2011 and went on to accumulate almost 20 million reads before being published.

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2011

Every day, as writers and as people, we can choose to grow and evolve or we can choose to remain the same. The day I lost my perpetual need to be angry was the worst day of my life as a writer and a slam poet. I was convinced that my anger was what made me a writer because it forced me to go deeper within myself.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Writers make hundreds of mistakes, but most writers end up making the same mistakes over and over again – often without even noticing. Just as every poker player has a “tell,” writers have sets of words or phrases they tend to overuse, often without knowing it. But many writers end up accidentally hiding their verbs.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It’s the writer in me… can’t help it, won’t stop it. In 2011, I was 19. What better sales message for my skills as a writer IF all my leads came through my own writing? In the second week of November… Our incredible NEW version of Content at Scale (one of the world’s most humanlike AI writers) launches.

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

They will undoubtedly have several writers exclusively focused on new reviews and round-ups on the day.  In 2011, they took out a full-page ad in the New York Times emblazoned with the headline, “Don’t buy this jacket.” They even closed their stores and sent their employees home.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Granted, some of those “Medium” searches could be for the TV show of the same name that starred Patricia Arquette from 2005 through 2011. Writers who stepped away for a season, but are making a comeback. Yesterday, you were just you — a talented, attractive writer living in obscurity. Nonetheless, its growth is impressive.

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The Write Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For anyone who saw All the President’s Men , dreaming of being a journalist or newspaper writer was a top goal for a lot of people. Along with writers, there also editors, photographers, videographers, and so on. As opposed to being a freelance writer, journalists usually have specific training and degrees in the field.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 11, 2011

As a writer, you will get the mean reds. These writers produce fantastic content, but it’s the small personal touches that serve as bait to hook readers in. In order for you to succeed as a writer, YOU need to have a vision. The mean reds are horrible. It’s guaranteed. You’ll doubt yourself.

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Fat Joe

JULY 21, 2023

You can scale your content creation without leaving your in-house writer like a caffeinated squirrel, frantically typing away in a desperate attempt to beat looming deadlines. Here’s why: Expand Production Capacity Back in 2011, the average blog post was around 300-500 words. That’s where content outsourcing comes in.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By using sensory words to evoke the sense of sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell; smart and attractive writers just like you are able to make their words burst to life in their reader’s mind. In a 2011 study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , experts found that our brains process “tangible” (i.e.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Sign up for my new Kickstarter: www.JFPenn.com/bloodvintage Lessons learned from 13 years as a full-time author entrepreneur Thirteen years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. When I became a writer, these two horses drove me once more. I've always been a visual writer, and a visual person.

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Express Writers

MAY 29, 2024

The year was 2011. Power Up Your Guide with Examples and Media One of the main traps guide writers fall into is being so focused on having all the written content they need that they end up with a text block. The post Your Ultimate Guide on How to Write an Ultimate Guide (Infographic) appeared first on Express Writers.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the intro, the author income survey [ALLi ]; publishing clauses to avoid [ Writer Unboxed ; Writer Beware ]; copyright registration for AI-assisted comic Zarya of the Dawn [ Process Mechanics ]; tips for writing with AI [ Self Publishing Show ]; my Sudowrite tutorial. And diving into social media during that time, it was Myspace.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Almost) eleven years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. As I discuss in How to Write a Novel , I am a discovery writer. You can follow my pilgrimage on Instagram @jfpennauthor and Facebook @jfpennauthor and Twitter @thecreativepenn. Lessons Learned from 11 Years as an Author Entrepreneur.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Check Writer Beware for years of them, most of them prior to generative AI. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

That will mean several things: Great writers and editors will have new career opportunities (and higher paying ones if Andy Crestodina’s prediction is right), and brands will take a closer look at their publishing schedules (cranking out a million mediocre pieces will only serve to hide your brilliant content).

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The Creative Penn

JULY 14, 2024

Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn KimBoo York is the author of romance, fantasy, and nonfiction, as well as a productivity coach, and a podcaster at The Author Alchemist and Around the Writer's Table. So I did eventually get published by a small indie publisher in 2011. So welcome, KimBoo. Joanna: I love this.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well. Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

We are only at the beginning of the opportunities of AI for wider society as well as for creativity and art, and it’s important that authors, writers, and other creatives be involved in order to shape the future as we want it to be. The development of photography might be the closest comparison to where writers are now. To do the work.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph: Okay, well, you know how superheroes have origin stories, I have a very strange writer origin story. I had finished reading something, a thriller by a fairly popular thriller writer at the time, and absolutely hated it. But I know you as an indie writer. I wrote my first novel in college to win a case of beer.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As an author, you need other writers for a sustainable long-term career. I created this business plan in March 2009 I started writing seriously in 2006, left my job in 2011, and in 2015, I made six figures, and then the following year, multi-six-figures, which I have sustained ever since across multiple streams of income.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 16, 2024

What are some of the common fears that writers face? In the intro, How to avoid indie author scams [ ALLi ; Writer Beware ]; Financial strategies and mindset [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Apple Intelligence at WWDC [ The Verge ; Marketing against the Grain]; “Not a chef, but an emotion creator.”

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

In 2011, it raised over $6 million to study the landscape of how to create “human-free stories” (such an oxymoron to say). Narrative Science “rents” Quill mostly to financial clients for whom it can create 10- to 15-page financial reports in a matter of moments (what would take a writer possibly weeks to put together).

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Fat Joe

AUGUST 23, 2023

Content Creation Creating a scalable content brief to provide clear guidelines to content writers. A bunch of thin and outdated blog posts from 2011 won’t add any SEO value. Are there areas you can expand on and offer more value to the user? Use this information to develop a detailed outline for the content.

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

They will undoubtedly have several writers exclusively focused on new reviews and round-ups on the day.  In 2011, they took out a full-page ad in the New York Times emblazoned with the headline, “Don’t buy this jacket.” They even closed their stores and sent their employees home.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Joanne: So I've always written and made up stories, like most writers, really. Then I began publishing chapters of it on a blog back in, I think, about 2011. Early in 2012, after I got my first Kindle and read about self-publishing in the writers magazines that I used to buy, I decided to take the plunge.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 30, 2013

I mumble, I whisper, I grin and give a little snort… I’m a noisy, noisy writer. The mental image you create of the writer is most likely not very flattering. How to Avoid Bullet-Hard Emails first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. You should hear me when I write an email.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Thompson was the creator of Gonzo Journalism – or as he called himself, “the doctor of journalism” – and the writer of the infamous books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga , and The Rum Diary. Verbs are the most important words writers will ever use.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I started to fathom that a writer employed tools, framed a composition, and shaped its architecture. At the end of the year, the school handed out student awards, and I was given a little cloisonné pin that said “Best Writer.”. Writers, aiieee, such dramatists!]. I read broadly, though wrote only sporadically. Why do you write?

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

As a fiction writer, I have a whole folder of novel starts that got trashed because of procrastination. I may be a writer and I may be a teen, but all fields have the potential to improve my craft. I fail at a lot of things, and I’m not ashamed to say that I fail spectacularly. At 14, I contacted a professor with 2 PhDs.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When I became a writer, these two horses drove me once more. I’ve been a full-time author entrepreneur since 2011 and before that, I used to implement accounts payable systems into companies across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. I’m grateful to have her!

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 21, 2024

So I basically worked in software development and network management until 2011. So you're a discovery writer, which I love, although you have given tips for outlining in your books. So getting back to, yes, I'm a discovery writer, but I think I have also learned about story structure. You're a discovery writer, right?

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