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Why writing skills are critical for your career

Kayleigh Moore

People regularly assume their writing skills are “good enough” to get by. billion on remedial writing training yearly. Having a strong foundation of writing skills is essential to building a profitable career as a freelance writer. Writing-focused training gets pushed down the to-do list month after month.

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Flesch Reading Ease: What It Is and Why It Matters

ContentWriters

Great writing should feel effortless to read. Your audience should breeze through your writing without losing interest. In the 1940s, Dr. Rudolph Flesch developed the Flesch Reading Ease test to gauge how easy it is to read someone’s writing. If it’s harder to read, then it’s harder to understand.

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Writing Fiction is a Path to Self-Knowledge

Kayleigh Moore

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking: what I'm looking at, what I see, what it means, what I want, and what I fear. Joan Didion Writing, specifically creative writing, is a path to better understanding yourself and your lens on the world. Specifically, writing fiction. Whats the context? What does it mean?

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When It Lights Up–and When It Doesn’t

Jane Friedman

On the days so hijacked by other things that no writing gets done at all. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to keep going, to frame the writing life as a process , not a necklace of golden moments connected by chains of tedium or worse. To begin, it was essential that she learn some new game developer software.

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Sometimes It IS About the Research

Jane Friedman

It was a great job: I spent the summer of 2016 going from archive to archive, devouring the writing of activists both well-known, like Lucretia Mott and Alice Paul, and less so, like Martha Schofield. It was this access to her inner life, not her impressive resume, that made me want to write about her.

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How to Go Deeper in Your Writing

Kayleigh Moore

From there, we had to write a one-page paper summarizing what we took from it. Read more: How to Take a Stance in Writing Now Im going to say the quiet part out loud. My most recent Philosophy course just started, and for the first class, we were assigned a short story to read. I thought, Okay, I got this.

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Claude AI 101: What It Is and How It Works

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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. Table of contents What is Claude AI? Claude AI vs. ChatGPT: Which is better?

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