Articles at Poewar.Com, my web site.
Funny Articles about Writing
- 10 Ways to Make Editors Hate You Before They Even Know You
- 12 Ways to Write Terrible Documentation
- 15 Ways the Harry Potter Books Would Be Different if They Were Written by Bret Easton Ellis
- Writing Your Way Out of a Wet Paper Sack
- 6 Ways to Tell You Were Hungry When You Wrote Your Last Short Story
- 7 Easy Steps to a More Pretentious Poem
- How to Fake Enthusiasm for Corporate Platitudes
- How to tell if your Project Manager is an Insane Moron
- Top 12 Signs that the Fantasy Novel You’re Working on has Gone Horribly Awry
- Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How!
Articles about Creating Fictional Characters
- 10 Days of Character Building: 12 Questions
- 10 Days of Character Building: A Day in the Life
- 10 Days of Character Building: Basing Characters on Real People
- 10 Days of Character Building: Biography
- 10 Days of Character Building: Brainstorming
- 10 Days of Character Building: Building a Character Using Multiple Perspectives
- 10 Days of Character Building: Defining Characters By Their Roles
- 10 Days of Character Building: Interview
- 10 Days of Character Building: Possessions
- Creating a Character Bio Sheet
- How do you write a role-playing character biography?
- Get Ready for 10 Days of Character Building
- How Good is Your Bad Guy?
- How to Create Fictional Characters
- How to Create Memorable Fictional Characters
- How to Create Fictional Characters Using Adversity
- Mapping out your Novel’s Characters
- Six Quick Tips on Character Names
Articles about Writing Dialog
- Are Your Characters Well Spoken, or is it Just You?
- Using Slang and Accents When Writing Fictional Dialogue
- Listen to strangers talking
- 12 Exercises for Improving Dialog
Articles about Novel Writing
- 10 Increasingly Pointless NaNoWriMo Helpers
- How to Write a 50,000 Word Novel in a Month
- NaNoWriMo Update — 50,000!
- Six Ways to Jump Start a Stalled Novel
- There is no Right Way to Write a Novel
- What are Your Novel’s Goals?
- 10 Tips For Writing Your Mystery Novel
- Writing a Novel: The Big Idea
Articles about Plotting Your Novel
- Building Better Novels Through Conflict
- Does anyone else have trouble with mind mapping?
- Maintaining your Novel’s Pace-Time Continuum
- Plotting by Elimination
- Six Quick Tips For Starting Your Story
- What to Do Once the Crisis is Settled
- Writing an Action Outline
Articles about Revising Your Novel
- Turning a First Draft into a Novel
- Revising Your Novel: Adding and revising scenes
- Revising Your Novel: Creating a Chronology
- Revising Your Novel: Creating a New Roadmap
- Revising Your Novel: Creating an Information Guide (Part One)
- Revising Your Novel: Creating an Information Guide (Part Two)
- Revising Your Novel: Edit as You Read
- Revising Your Novel: Editing with an eye toward continuity
- Revising Your Novel: Finding someone to read your draft
- Revising Your Novel: Performing a Light Edit
- Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
- Revising Your Novel: Starting Over
Articles about Writing Short Stories
- How to Format a Short Story
- Short Story Writing Project: Beware of the Twilight Zone Ending
- Short Story Writing Project: Clear-cut versus obscure
- Short Story Writing Project: Fleshing out your world
- Short Story Writing Project: How do you get started?
- Short Story Writing Project: How to Participate
- Short Story Writing Project: Narrative Structure
- Short Story Writing Project: The first draft
- Short Story Writing Project: The Law of Diminishing Randomness
- Short Story Writing Project: The Second Draft
- Short Story Writing Project: To make a long story short
- Short Story Writing Project: Using Articles for Ideas
- Short Story Writing Project: What is a Short Story?
- Short Story Writing Project: Writing about real life events
Articles about Descriptive Writing
- Deciding on a Narrative Voice
- Creating a Believable World
- How Setting Influences Story
- The Fiction Description Prescription
- Six Tips for Writing Descriptions
Articles about Freelance Writing
- 10 Reasons Freelancing is for Suckers
- 10 Steps to a Freelance Writing Career
- A Guide to the Freelance Writing Lifestyle (Part One)
- A Guide to the Freelance Writing Lifestyle (Part Two)
- Are You Determined Enough to be a Freelance Writer?
- Are you Ready to Freelance?
- Are you ready to move to a full-time freelance writing career?
- Don’t Make Your Freelance Writing Career Just About Work
- Five Things a Freelancer Should Know Before Querying a Magazine
- Freelance Writing Advice
- Freelance Writing and Nonpaying Markets
- Freelance Writing and Organization
- Freelancing Means Customer Service
- Getting Started in Newspaper Freelancing
- How to Avoid Loneliness as a Freelance Writer
- How to be a Better Freelance Writer
- How to Deal with an Editor Who is Taking too Long to Respond
- How to Freelance for a Private Detective or a Mental Patient
- How to Step Away From the Freelance Job Boards and Discover Treasure in Your Own Backyard
- How to subsidize your freelance writing career with a (shudder) JOB
- Successful Freelance Writers Are Like Pirates
- Successful Freelance Writers are Running a Business
- Successful Freelance Writers are Surrounded by Terrible Freelance Writers
- Successful Freelance Writers Avoid Soul Sucking Meetings
- Successful Freelance Writers Don’t Take Revisions Personally
- Successful Freelance Writers Don’t Underprice Their Services
- Successful Freelance Writers Don’t Waste Time on Email
- Successful Freelance Writers Keep an Eye on the Competition
- Successful Freelance Writers Know How to Close the Sale
- Successful Freelance Writers Know How to Use a Feed Reader
- Successful Freelance Writers Say No
- Successful Writing and Reporting for Newspapers
- Monster List of Freelancing Tips
- Organization Ideas for Freelance Writers
- Project Management and Editorial Calendars for Freelance Writers
- Seven Powerful Tips for Maximizing Your Freelance Writing Business
- Six Tips for More Organized Freelancing
- The Beginner’s Guide To Freelance Writing
- The Realities of a Freelance Writing Career
- The World’s Simplest Freelance Rate Formula
- Want to be a Freelance Writer? Get Ready for Business!
Articles about Writing Poetry
- Poetry Writing Tips
- Add adnomination to your poetry
- Attempt a meter you haven’t worked with before
- Don’t include any word with a single “A” in it, but do include at least one word with two “A”s in it
- Doublets, Cinquains and Adelaide Crapsey
- Find a comfortable spot and write a poem
- Find an original way to describe a chair and make that the first line of your poem
- Five Lessons Poets Can Learn From Henry Rollins
- Four Things Poets Can Learn From George Carlin
- How to Create a Found Poem
- How to Write A Cinquain
- How to Write a Pantoum
- How to Write a Persona Poem
- How to Write a Poetic Parable
- How to Write a Tercet
- How to Write an Acrostic
- How to Write an Elegy
- How to Write an Epistle
- How to Write Syllabic Verse
- Include a verb in every line of your poem
- Include the word right or rights in your poem
- Include the words “formal” and “casual” at some point in your poem
- Links to the 2008 and 2007 Poetry Projects
- Meditate, then write a poem
- More Poetic Terms
- Poetry Under Pressure
- Pick two or three words from one poem and use them to start another poem
- Poetry Across the Web
- Poetry Across The Web
- Poetry Across the Web
- Poetry Across The Web (Week Two)
- Poetry Assignment: Imagery
- Poetry Assignment: Write a Poem about a Gathering
- Poetry Prompts
- Poetry Publishing on the Cheap: Chapbooks
- Poetry Tips Explained: Tip 11
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Five
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Four
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip One
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Seven
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Six
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Ten
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Three
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Two
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tips Eight and Nine
- Rewrite a past poem
- Rhythm and Stress
- Some Recently Published Books of Poetry You Might Want to Read
- Start your poem with a piece of advice
- The Entire 30 Poems in 30 Days Series — 2008
- This Week’s Poetry Across the Web
- Use a letter count as a constraint for your poetry
- Use the same (or similar) words in both your first line and last line
- Use the word “secret” twice in your poem
- Use the word Pattern in the first line and/or the last line of your poem.
- Using Hyponyms to Structure for Your Poem
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 1: Compilations and Love Poems
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 2: Water
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 3: Poetry and Photographs
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 4: Difficult Subjects
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 6: Feeling the Flow
- Write a Blues Sonnet
- Write a definition poem
- Write a list poem that uses a single line for each item on the list
- Write a poem about a contest, a win, or a loss
- Write a poem about a natural event
- Write a poem about a place you have been or a journey you have taken
- Write a poem about a recent news event
- Write a poem about a specific but minor memory
- Write a poem about an event in your life that you have strong feelings about
- Write a poem about something you believe
- Write a poem about the end of something
- Write a poem about your childhood
- Write a poem as if it were an entry in someone’s journal or diary or even their Twitter account
- Write a poem as that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once
- Write a poem in the form of a letter (epistle)
- Write a poem in which a similar or identical phrase is repeated three or more times
- Write a poem in which the seasons play a role
- Write a poem that addresses the same subject as a poem you don’t like
- Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word
- Write a poem that begins and ends with three single syllable words
- Write a poem that begins with a line of advice or instruction
- Write a poem that begins with a negative image or statement and ends with a positive image or statement
- Write a poem that begins with a proclamation
- Write a poem that begins with the word “I”
- Write a poem that begins with you waking up
- Write a poem that demonstrates strong emotion without ever stating what that emotion is
- Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning
- Write a poem that doesn’t use your standard process
- Write a poem that either uses no words longer than five letters or no words shorter than five letters
- Write a poem that ends with the word “quiet”.
- Write a poem that follows the three rules of the imagists
- Write a poem that gets shorter with each line
- Write a poem that has a variable line length rather than a set meter
- Write a poem that includes at least one description of an object that is six or more words long
- Write a poem that involves an animal
- Write a poem that is set at or near where you live
- Write a poem that tells a story
- Write a poem that uses at least two different forms of repetition
- Write a poem that uses exactly the same number of characters on every line
- Write a poem that uses something other than traditional end rhyme
- Write a poem that uses word combinations
- Write a poem using a random source
- Write a poem using a specific meter / A Brief Glossary of Meter
- Write a poem using iambic pentameter
- Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse
- Write a ritual poem
- Write a Tanka
- Write a three or more stanza poem that uses a metered style for the first two stanzas and a non-metered format for the remaining stanzas
- Write a three stanza poem that shows a progression with each stanza
- Write about an event in your life that happened within the past week
- Write about something in your life that you do every day
- Write about something you can see from the window of your home
- Write about the first time you did something
- Write an occasional poem about an event that has taken place in the past year
- Write in a new place
- Write or rewrite a greeting card poem so that is has meaning to you, or at least is funny
- Write the final line of your poem first, then figure out a way to get there
- Write the final line to your poem first and then write the poem to get to that ending
- Write the first draft of your poem in paragraph form and then change it into a free verse poem
- Tips for Writing in Forms
- Use an inspiration tool
- What is a Stanza?
Poems by John Hewitt
- Poem — Driving Down
- Poem — Thanksgiving
- Poem — The Days Before
- Poem — The First Day
- Poem: Awake and Paralyzed
- Poem: Complications and Opportunities
- Poem: Friday Night in ICU
- Poem: Minor Delusions
- Poem: Nurse Sunshine and the Drama Queen
- Poem: Snow Together
- Poem: The One More Thing
- Poem: The Second Hospital
- Poem: The Shifts
Articles about Getting Published
- Clarification About Self Publishing
- Competition can be Good for Non-fiction Book Proposals
- Escaping the Slush Pile
- Four Ways to Publish Your Poetry
- Glossary of Publishing Terms
- How and Why to Start Your Own Print or Web Zine
- How to Calculate Potential Book Profits
- Submitting Your Poetry for Publication
- The Tricky Art of Self-Publishing
- Who Should Self Publish
- Small Magazines are Taking a Big Financial Hit
- The Benefits of Print-on-Demand for Your Niche Book
- The Rise of the Literary Paperback
- Why Newspapers are Dying (and what they can do about it)
- Why They Rejected Your Perfectly Good Submission
Reviews and Recommendations for Writers
- Review: Games People Play
- Review: How To Write a Book Proposal
- Review: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider’s Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers
- Review: The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual
- Review: The Well Fed Writer: Back For Seconds
- Recommended Reading – Optional Failure Edition
- Recommended WordPress Plugin: WPTouch
- Site Review: GTDagenda.com
- Some Recommended Reading
- Some Light Reading for a Friday
- Thoughts on the Novel Indian Killer
- Web Sites for Writers – Content Maven – Meryl.Net
- Bukowski
- An Analysis of Indian Killer, To Kill a Mockingbird and Daisy Miller
- Can JK Rowling Survive the Deathly Hallows?
- Cedar Rapids did not give me a Hangover
Articles about a Technical Writing Career
- A Career in Technical Writing: A strange new world
- A Career in Technical Writing: Amanda
- A Career in Technical Writing: Beach Time
- A Career in Technical Writing: Bright Lights, Big City
- A Career in Technical Writing: By the time I get to Phoenix
- A Career in Technical Writing: End games
- A Career in Technical Writing: End of Part One
- A Career in Technical Writing: Last Contractor Standing
- A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a newbie
- A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a wannabee
- A Career in Technical Writing: Reversals
- A Career in Technical Writing: The beginning of a new series
- A Career in Technical Writing: The fax about outsourcing
- A Career in Technical Writing: Two dates to the prom
- A Career in Technical Writing: Workaround
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Document Mismanagement System
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Life without Editors
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Marketing and the Technical Writer
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Quick Review of the Quick Start Guide
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): The Sinking Ship is in Beta
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): When a Project Ends
- First Day of a Technical Writing Contract
- How a Technical Writing Phone Interview Works
- How Much Money Does a Technical Writer Make?
Technical Writing Tips and Tools
- A Technical Writer Assignment Using FrameMaker and FrameScript
- A Technical Writing Project Using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Illustrator
- A Writer’s Guide to Basic Software Development / Production Terms
- Adobe FrameMaker for Technical Writers
- Eight Common Technical Documentation Writing Problems
- Four not so Obvious Skills You’ll Need as a Technical Writer
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Attending / Holding Meetings
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Going to training sessions / meeting the trainers
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Interviewing the SMEs
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Using the product
- How Technical Writers use Microsoft Visio
- How to Create a Documentation Library
- How to Design Technical Documents Visually
- How to Write a How To Article
- Technical Writing Interview and Negotiation
- Technical Writing Part Five: Education
- Technical Writing Part Four: Desktop Publishing Tools
- Technical Writing Part One: Process Overview
- Technical Writing Part Six: How to Find Technical Writing Jobs
- Technical Writing Part Three: A Technical Writer’s Skill Set
- Technical Writing Part Two: What a Technical Writer Writes
- Living Documentation: The Future of Technical Writing
- Option Paralysis and the Technical Writer
- Starting a New Technical Writing Project
- The Technical Writer and the Cool Desert Blues
- The Technical Writing FAQ
- Wake Up and Smell the Technology
- What is a Technical Writing Contractor?
- What major/degree is required to become a Technical Writer?
- Why Technical Documentation Matters More in a Bad Economy
- Working on Group Technical Writing Projects
- Using Conditional Text and Boilerplate with Adobe FrameMaker
- It’s OK to Create Books in Microsoft Word
Articles about Usability
- Usability on the Cheap: Brainstorming User Issues
- Usability on the Cheap: Surfing for User Comments
- Usability on the Cheap: Think in terms of scenarios
- Usability: Do you want the data or the conversion?
- Usability: People really don’t like surprises
Articles about Writing as a Business
- How to Treat Your Writing Like a Business
- Is your Writing Career Financially Sustainable?
- Promoting Your Services: Buy Business Cards
- Prospecting for Markets
- Some Business Advice for Writers
- Surviving as a Writer in a Bad Economy
Articles about Writing as a Career
- 2010 Average Salaries for Writers and Editors
- 4-Hour Work Week: Lessons for Writers
- Building a Financially Sustainable Writing Career: Body Work
- Building a Financially Sustainable Writing Career: Marketing
- Building a Financially Sustainable Writing Career: The Emergency Fund
- Building a Sustainable Writing Career: Hardiness
- Building a Sustainable Writing Career: Increase Your Hardiness
- Business Plans for Writers
- Business Plans, Social Media Plans and Planning for the Slow Times
- Can I write about specialty topics?
- Can You Make Money Writing Novels?
- Comic Strip Writing as a Career
- Examining the Current Writing Job Market (Part One)
- Examining the Current Writing Job Market (Part Two)
- Five Simple Ways to Help Market Your Writing
- Five Things Remember When You Respond to an Online Job Ad
- Glossary of Writing Careers
- How to Find Publishing Industry Jobs
- How to Organize a New Job Search
- How to Use Creativity Techniques in Your Writing Career
- How to use the Web to Find Writing Jobs
- How to Write for Money
- Job Hunting To Do List
- Team Building: A trip to the dark side
- The Dangers of Writing on Spec
- What is an Acquisitions Editor?
- Why Persistence Means More than Talent
- Will The Recession Hurt Your Writing Career?
- Writing and Sustainability
Articles about the Writing Craft
- How to Express Yourself Through Writing
- How to Write about Your Childhood — Autobiographical Writing
- Learn to be a Better Writer by Becoming a Better Critic
- Overcoming Barriers to Self Expression
- More on Self Expression: Keep writing!
- Quotations about Writing and Books
- What are Metaphor, Simile and Analogy?
- What is an Allegory?
- Writing as a God
Articles about Education for Writers
- A Guide to Creative Writing MFA Programs
- College Majors for Aspiring Writers
- How to Approach the Learning Process as a Writer
- How to Become an Expert Writer in Any Field
Articles about the Writing Life
- Are You Having Any Fun?
- Dealing with your Inner Observer
- Directory of Writers’ Colonies
- Fail Your Way to Greatness
- Good Reasons to Write Fiction and Poetry
- Groups and Association for Writers
- Homegrown Poetry Retreats
- How to Overcome a Fear of Making Requests
- How to Overcome Your Writing Fears
- How to Partner with Other Writers
- How to Set Personal Boundaries
- Negative Self Talk For Writers
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Awfulizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Blaming
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Catastrophizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Fairesy
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Judging human worth
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Minimizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Musterbation
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Negativising
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Obsessing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Overgeneralizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Perfectionism
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Personalizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Polarized thinking
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Right stepping
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Shoulding
- Inspiring the Inspirational Writer
- Mentoring for Writers
- Six Suggestions for Sustainable Writing: Inspiration from Frank Herbert’s Dune
- Some Inspirational Quotes
- Where to Sit During Inspiration
- Who Have You Helped Today?
- Working From Home
Articles about Writing Productivity
- 5 Ways Writers Can Get Their Lives Back
- A Basic Guide to Time and Task Management
- Writing Under Pressure: How to please a panicking boss
- Writing Productivity – Overcoming Writer’s Isolation
- Writing Productivity — Using an Idea Log
- Be a Problem Solver
- Better Writing Through Stress
- Coworking
- Creating a Peaceful Home Office
- Effective and Efficient Research Methods
- Finding Time to Write
- Four tips for collaborating on a team project
- Getting Ready to Write: Rituals vs. Distractions
- How to Create an Article or Blog Idea Log
- How to Make Deadlines Work for You
- Productivity Tip: Make the first hour count
- Productivity Tool: Nudgemail
- List Therapy
- LiveBlogging: Getting Organized
- Manage Your Values as Well as Your Tasks
- Planning Your Day and Maintaining your Sanity
- Quick Guide to Creating an Efficient File System
- Step One for a Great New Year of Writing: Dedicate Yourself to One Project
- Step Two for a Great New Year of Writing: Set a Writing Schedule
- Step Three for a Great New Year of Writing: Track Your Progress
- Task Organization
- Think before you meet
- Today is a Great Day to Eliminate Clutter
- What is weighing you down?
Writing Prompts
- Writing Prompts #1
- Writing Prompts #2
- Writing Prompts #3
- Writing Prompts #4
- Writing Prompts #5
- Writing Prompts #6
- Writing Prompts #7
- Writing Prompts #8
- Writing Prompts #9
- Writing Prompts #10
- Writing Prompts #11
- Writing Prompts #12
- Writing Prompts #13
- Writing Prompts #14
- Writing Prompts #15
- Writing Prompts #16
- Writing Prompts #17
- Writing Prompts #18
- Writing Prompts #19
- Writing Prompts #20
- Writing Prompts #21
- Writing Prompts #22
- Writing Prompts #23
- Writing Prompts #24
- Writing Prompts #25
- Writing Prompts #26
- Writing Prompts #27
- Writing Prompts #28
- Writing Prompts #29
- Writing Prompts #30
- Writing Prompts #31
- Writing Prompts #32
- Writing Exercise: What is power?
- Writing Exercise: Your Personality as a Child
- Writing Exercise: Your tastes in food and drink
Articles about Writing Query Letters
- How to Write a Query Letter
- How to Write Quality Query Letters: Be real, specific
- How to Write Quality Query Letters: Do your research
- How to Write Quality Query Letters: Give yourself credit
- How to Write Quality Query Letters: Offer them what they don’t have
- How to Write Quality Query Letters: Write a Great Headline
- Know it or Blow it: Querying a Publication
- The Query Trap
Articles about Writing Scams
- 7 Ways to Become the Victim of a Poetry Contest Scam
- Wronging Writers: Don’t Get Taken
- Avoiding Poetry Contest Scams
Articles about Writing Skills
- Concrete Writing
- How to Send an Effective Press Release
- The Basics of Press Releases
- How to Successfully Interview People
- How to Talk to an Editor on the Telephone
- The Interviewing Conundrum
- Wrap Your Naked Statistics in a Warm Blanket of Meaning
Articles about Writing Specialties
- Only Specialize if You Want to Make Money
- Compiling Quizzes
- Copywriting: Writing to Sell
- Corporate Blogging: Letting Internal Drive External
- How to Get Christian Writing Jobs
- How to Sell Articles to Daily and Weekly Newspapers
- Mainstream Erotica
- White Papers: The Niche Where 20 Pages Can Net You $20,000 – Really!
- Writing Animal Articles
- Writing for City Web Sites
Writing – Tips
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Earn Your Ending
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Exigence
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Explaining the Unreliable Narrator
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Join a Writer’s Group
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Lean stories get published
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Read it out loud
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Save What You Write
- John Hewitt’s Writing Tips: Write Every Day
Articles about Editing
- “A small sheik escaped” and other editing exercises to energize your writing’
- Benevolent Dictators: The Truth About Editors
- Compound Words: A Proofreading Pitfall
- Get Rid of Ugly Wordiness: How to Cut Your Novel Down to Size
- Good Criticism Versus Bad Criticism
- How to Avoid Copywriting Rewrites
- So Much in Common: The Truth about Editing and Bull Riding
Articles about Essay Writing
- A Totally Overboard Guide to Essay and Paper Writing on the Web
- 12 Tips for Writing Your Essay Paper
- 7 Secrets to a Striking Essay
- A List of Essay Writing Don’ts
- Eight Tips for Writing a Division Essay
- How to Improve Your Essay Writing Skills
- How to Write Personal Essays and Opinion Pieces
- The Intersection of the Personal and Professional, or, Why My Attempts at Nonfiction Essays in Grad School Bombed
Articles about Blogging
- Are Archives pages THAT Important?
- 5 Reasons I Love Blogging More than Freelancing
- Blogger TMI
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Academic Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Business Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Choosing a Service Provider
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: How Much Money Can You Make?
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Hybrid Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Personal Blogs (Diaries)
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Photo Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Political Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Subject Matter Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: What is a blog?
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Who should try it?
- Blogging Changed My Life
- Fear and the Guest Blogger
- Five Sad Realities of Site Advertising
- Four Steps to Picking a Profitable Topic for your Blog
- How To Be Beloved by StumbleUpon
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: Building a Reputation
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: Discovery
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To better understand something
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To clarify your thinking
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To clear up confusion
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To create a record
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To create something that makes other people happy
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To create something you can be proud of
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To educate
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To entertain
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: To escape reality
- Reasons to Start Your Own Blog: You control the conversation
- In Defense of No Comment
- One Blogger, Many Roles
- One more bit of advice for corporate bloggers
- Please Welcome My Guest Bloggers
- Seven ways you can get me to read your corporate blog
- The Organized Blogger
- Top 10 Blogs for Writers
- Why Evergreen Posts Make Blogs Successful
- My Trouble with Twitter (or why I’ll never be a social media guru)
- The Increasing Struggle for Comments and Community
- The Death of Google Reader Has Bummed Me Out
- To RSS with Love and Fear
- Tough Times on the Content Farms
- Web Content Development: The New Writing Career
- What Makes You Comment?
- What Podcasts do you Listen to?
