Grammarly

MARCH 23, 2025

Brainstorming is a powerful way to spark creativity and generate ideas in the writing process. Whether youre working on a novel , an academic essay , or a blog , brainstorming helps you see your project from a new angle and break through creative roadblocks. Whether practiced alone or with others, Osborns principles still apply.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A simple ChatGPT prompt could look like this: Write a 100-word product description for [insert product details]. It also generates outlines and creative content. Depending on the tool you use, you may be able to enter freeform, text-based prompts. Suppose you want to generate a description for a new ecommerce item.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2010, Anne McAuley Lopez has been writing content for businesses and nonprofits in partnership with social media managers, nonprofit marketing professionals, and digital marketing agencies. They combine creativity with technical skills to ensure the content meets audience needs and organizational goals.

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Freelance Union

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What creative ideas, projects, or initiatives are you hatching right now? Oh, because if you’re a freelancer or creative business owner, I know you’ve got a thing or two (or twelve!) Using our examples of writing a book, creating an app, or launching a podcast, here are some examples of sticky goals + projects.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Claude can generate various forms of text content, such as summaries, creative works, and code. Chatbots have emerged as one of the most common forms of generative AI. Claude AI is a chatbot built with ethics and safety in mind. Heres an overview of what Claude AI is, how to use it, and which limitations you should be mindful of.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 18, 2025

What I thought would take only a few weeks to curate my work and write a simple bio became a yearlong existential dive into defining myself as an artist in the online world. As creative industries shift, we have to shift with them I was ready to embark upon the fifth iteration of my website. Flash forward to 2024. He hated it.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The beauty of discomfort I like the creative part of me. And I like that writing allows me to connect with that part of me. And I like that writing allows me to connect with that part of me. When I started writing seriously in my early 40s , I had a love-hate relationship with writing. Here goes … 1.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Creativity can feel a lot like those unreliable game cartridges. Every successful writer develops creative habits to help them get their version of Zelda back on the screen. Every successful writer develops creative habits to help them get their version of Zelda back on the screen. Write it down. Write it down.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 13, 2025

15 for the online class Organize Your Writing Life. Weve all heard the famous writing advice: I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. Stephen King I only write when Im inspired, so I see to it that Im inspired every morning at nine oclock. Peter De Vries Just write every day of your life.

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Whether you need to write a marketing script for social media, commercials, or podcasts, a powerful script will help you stand out. Unlike traditional writing, marketing scripts must balance persuasive messaging with entertainment value while adhering to strict timing and format requirements. The good news?

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2025

Your writing sounds bland. Have weak phrases sneaked into your writing? And just like a chef grinds a little extra pepper, sprinkles a few coriander leaves, or drizzles extra lime juice, you need to balance the flavors of your writing, too. And then, I tell you how to flavor up your writing. You knew it was good.

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 12, 2024

As a budding young copywriter in the early 1980s, I worked with an art director as my partner, and our work was overseen by the agency’s creative director. Creative directors were at the top of the pile in Creative Departments. They shaped the overall creative output of the agency. But… where’s the creative director?

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 7, 2023

What makes writing worth savoring like that? At school, you probably learned that good writing is coherent, focused, and correct. So, what did I learn about good writing? Good writing is creative Creativity comes in many forms. Creativity serves your reader. Sometimes, I savor a book slowly.

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Grammarly

MARCH 26, 2025

In this guide, youll discover 17 brainstorming techniques designed to help you generate, organize, and refine your ideas: Classic techniques like freewriting and mind mapping to get your creativity flowing. They help you tap into creativity, overcome writers block, and generate ideas freelywithout worrying about perfection.

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Grammarly

MARCH 26, 2025

A structured brainstorming process turns scattered ideas into clear, compelling writing. By following this process, youll develop a more systematic approach to idea generation and ensure that your writing is both creative and well organized from the start. Consider a no internet rule to help you stay in the zone.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Copywriters call it a 'hook,' and learning how to write social media hooks can be the difference between your followers scrolling past your post or stopping in their tracks to see what you have to say. Thankfully, you can write hooks that are both accurate and enticing without resorting to sensationalism. 

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Nick Ursborne

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Beyond Basic Prompts Forget simple commands like “write a product description.” ” It’s time to get creative and strategic with your prompts. [NOTE: In my last po st I worked with GPT4o to help me convert some presentation materials into a post. In this post I worked with Gemini 1.5 Pro with Deep Research.

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Kayleigh Moore

MARCH 9, 2023

Laura is currently a member of the English faculty at Spoon River College where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature courses. How will you know what you want to write if you don’t know what you like to read? And that is becoming more vague with AI-powered writing tools. No ulterior motive involved.

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 25, 2025

Write a clincher sentence. Want to know how to write these powerful sentences? If writing was a boxing match, the clincher sentence would be the knockout blow. How to write a clincher sentence To write a clincher sentence, you first must know your key message. It happens to me surprisingly often. Sound familiar?

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Freelance Union

JANUARY 17, 2025

Freelancers Union members receive 30 days of free unlimited access to CleanMyMacX and Setapp:  [link] What’s really important in the freelance writing world is developing a unique writing style and improving as a professional. So, how can you refine your writing style?    What is writing style?

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Backlinko

JULY 10, 2024

For example, Scribe, a documentation tool, has created multiple articles and pages about writing and building SOPs. Each page focuses on a different search intent, such as game development, planning, creative management, and more. Ultimately, all of these pages can get stuck in lower positions in search results. The result?

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 30, 2024

Do you feel uncertain about your own writing? Most of us are unhappy about our writing. We despair at the gap between how we write and how we’d like to write. Mastering writing may feel like climbing a huge mountain You start your climb with a positive mind and full of energy. We procrastinate. What to do?

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Make a Living Writing

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Long ago, I came up with a list of ways working freelancers can grow their writing income. If you’ve been wondering how to make money writing—serious money, that is—this list is for you. How to make money writing Aren’t you sick of the negativity out there in the freelance writing community? I know I am.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I’ve thought a lot about writing this year. And about the value of writing. Writing has felt as an act of defiance. And, sometime in June, my inner critic tried to tell me writing was a waste of my energy. Quit writing! Because writing makes me feel alive, and it allows me to be my best self.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Because I am not making progress with my writing. Im a doctor and medical researcher who caught the unshakable urge to write a novel in 2019. Six years later, Ive had no success in finding a cure for the compulsion to write. Worse, Ive become all too aware of the ill-effects that not writing have on my mood and well-being.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But I do believe in creative planning for authors, the kind of plan that recognises the power of the subconscious. Without a system to integrate the learnings from the inevitable failures and vagaries of the creative life, sub-par performance and associated discouragement become almost inevitable. It doesn’t have to be like this.

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 2, 2025

Wondering if there are online magazines that pay decent freelance writing rates in 2025? But businesses, magazines, and digital publications still have freelance writing jobs they need to fill. Yes, you read that rightyou might be able to get paid to write poetry by The Sun Magazine. You’re not the only one. USD a word.

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 11, 2025

When I asked earlier this year what you’d like me to write about, Michelle suggested I share my experience of posting on LinkedIn. When I asked earlier this year what you’d like me to write about, Michelle suggested I share my experience of posting on LinkedIn. A year ago, I became active on LinkedIn. What worked?

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo by Edz Norton on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Tarot for Storytellers: A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives by Kris Waldherr. Stories help us make sense of our life, seek creative solutions, find connections, and to experience empathy for others. Published by Muse Publications LLC. I’m a storyteller.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

You’ve encountered creative nonfiction countless times—in conversation, on social media, and on the written page, but could you define or explain it if asked? Here, we’ll look at the kinds of writing and speech that make stories, podcasts, and countless other media come to life, all while sticking to the truth.

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s easy for writers and copywriters to roll their eyes when they hear about AI writing tools. At their current level of performance, these tools often produce generic, slightly robotic text that can’t entirely replicate that unique human touch in writing. It’s the same with AI writing tools.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There is something flat and unsatisfying about writing in a formulaic way. Academic writing. Business writing. Marketing writing. As a copywriter, the least satisfying type of writing for me is when I follow some kind of template or framework. But… I don’t get much pleasure from writing like that.

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Backlinko

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

But when you write an article, you’re looking to accomplish more than just catching attention. In this blog, we’ll show you exactly how to write an article that does just that—in seven steps. Step #1: Find a Relevant Topic One of the first hurdles in writing an article is deciding on a topic.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 18, 2024

Photo by Pavle Stankovic on Unsplash Note from Jane: As many of you know, I recently attended my very first writing retreat in April, on a transatlantic cruise aboard the Queen Mary 2. And I’ve become something of a convert now that I’ve observed the power of writing retreats after 20 years of intense conference speaking.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 1, 2025

2024 was a year of consolidation as I got my creative house in order and began to shift my creative and business processes. 2024 was a year of consolidation as I got my creative house in order and began to shift my creative and business processes. If youd like to share your goals, please add them in the comments below.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Did you know you can earn money by finding greeting card writing jobs? Our guide below covers everything you need to know about freelance greeting card writing jobs, including how much you can make, which companies are looking for writers, how to land the gigs, and more. How much do greeting card writing jobs pay?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 22, 2024

How can you balance self-care with achieving your creative goals. This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket , which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com This show is also supported by my Patrons. It affects us.

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