Writing effectively is something most of us aim to do, but it’s a skill that takes a long time to polish. You can, however, quickly improve your writing by knowing the following strategies:1. Stop Being WordyThe first thing you should do to improve your writing is to be more concise. For some reason, it is […]
Category: Blog Strategy and Skills
A New Focus for the Blog
I just wanted to share a brief update about what I’ll be focusing on in future blog posts. So far I’ve experimented with different topics on the blog, such as blogging, teaching, rhetoric, audience building, and writing tools. I’ve talked about the difficulty of figuring out who it is I’m writing to. And about the […]
Writing Headlines That Work: Earning and Keeping Your Reader’s Interest
When I started blogging regularly, I became a bit frustrated by the reach of my posts. Some posts seemed poignant, timely, and important yet received little to no attention. Others felt a bit frivolous—personal rants and trivial afterthoughts—but were shared widely and attracted a dozen or more comments. I would return to one of the meaningful posts, […]
5 Blogging Mistakes: What I’ve Learned After a Year of Blogging
I started the blog section of this website over a year ago, and after some sober self-analysis, I’ve identified 5 big mistakes that I’ve made so far. My hope is that this post will be instructive for readers and that it creates some accountability for myself in applying what I’ve learned from these mistakes. Now, mistakes […]
Creating an Audience, Creating a Self: Blogging When the Seats are Empty
I’ve published 9 blog posts and over 80 pages on this site to date. In trying to build the site, I’ve faced numerous obstacles, but one in particular has got me vexed: I don’t know my audience. Actually, I have several ideas of who they might be. But that’s part of the problem. In imagining […]