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Consistency matters in board papers
Be consistent at all levels of writing I’ve read a lot of board papers lately and been reminded of the need for consistency at every level of a paper. Consistent messaging provides clarity while inconsistent messaging leads to questioning and distrust. When your formatting, word choice and styles are consistent, no feature stands out to […]
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Consistency matters in board papers
Be consistent at all levels of writing I’ve read a lot of board papers lately and been reminded of the need for consistency at every level of a paper. Consistent messaging provides clarity while inconsistent messaging leads to questioning and distrust. When your formatting, word choice and styles are consistent, no feature stands out to […]
Stop procrastinating and get writing
Manage your time and emotions I read a lot of poorly written business documents that make me wonder about people’s time-management skills. I wonder if they put off writing because they think they can’t write well. (Quite a few business writers tell me they don’t like writing.) Maybe they are pushed for time with endless […]
Can you write your own copy?
I was at a networking meeting recently, and someone said: ‘Once you’ve written an online course, you can’t write the copy for the website. You must engage a professional copywriter.’
The group murmured assent and I sat silent because I write my own copy for my online courses and wouldn’t have it any other way.
Write your novel
Getting started on a novel I wrote fiction when my kids were little, and had some minor successes with two school readers published and two stories on radio. You can listen to the radio stories on my YouTube channel: The Recycler and The Table Cloth Dress. Then I got distracted by work and writing nonfiction. […]
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Stop procrastinating and get writing
Manage your time and emotions I read a lot of poorly written business documents that make me wonder about people’s time-management skills. I wonder if they put off writing because they think they can’t write well. (Quite a few business writers tell me they don’t like writing.) Maybe they are pushed for time with endless […]
Can you write your own copy?
I was at a networking meeting recently, and someone said: ‘Once you’ve written an online course, you can’t write the copy for the website. You must engage a professional copywriter.’
The group murmured assent and I sat silent because I write my own copy for my online courses and wouldn’t have it any other way.
Write your novel
Getting started on a novel I wrote fiction when my kids were little, and had some minor successes with two school readers published and two stories on radio. You can listen to the radio stories on my YouTube channel: The Recycler and The Table Cloth Dress. Then I got distracted by work and writing nonfiction. […]
The power of writing to heal lives
Write for 20 minutes a day, three days in a row I challenge you to write about your life for 20 minutes a day, three days in a row. Don’t worry about grammar and punctuation. Just write. Then put the piece of writing aside or throw it away. It doesn’t matter if you never read […]
Top three grammar searches (status, staff and decision-making)
‘What is the plural of status?’ tops the list I have been writing about grammar for years and have answered hundreds of people’s grammar questions. The posts that receive the most hits on my Online Writing Training site surprise me. I would never have predicted that the most popular posts would be: The plural of […]