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The Evolving Language of Mental Health
Like it or not, language changes. As a writer, are you keeping up with the vocabulary on sensitive topics?
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The Mechanics of Attribution: Quoting & Paraphrasing
Rules and best practices for serving the sayer and the story well.
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What’s the Point of Your Story?
Seriously, it’s so often not clear. Here’s a guide to making your point.
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Thank You, Dear Reader
Readers are not just clicks or visitors or eyeballs. Readers are the individual people we writers must aim to serve.
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When Quoting Someone, Just Say ‘Said’
If a quote is worth quoting, let it be said. Not noted or related or murmured.
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Fundamental Elements of a Good Article
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Writers: Beware the Influencers’ Echo Chambers
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You Can Write About a Topic Again and Again and Again
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What Medium Wants From Writers
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Cadence and Flow: How to Make Your Articles Sing
Turn mundane writing into music to reader’s eyes
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Editors: How to Get What You Want from Writers via Documentation and a System
If you’re not doing these four things, you can’t expect writers to know what they should write, or how. Writers: You should expect these things, too!
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How to Deal with Weird or Nasty Reader Comments
When to dive in and when to walk away
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Writers on Writing: Follow Your Curiosity
Elizabeth Knight, a nurse practitioner and health coach, combines deep professional expertise, genuine curiosity and lots of enthusiasm to make her…
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3–30–3: Three Rules of Engaging Writing
You have just seconds to engage readers online. Here’s how to use the time well.
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How Much Time Should You Spend Writing a Story?
That’s the wrong question, but I do have some answers
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Writer’s on Writing: On Inserting Yourself into a Story
Eric Kort, a physician and mindfulness coach, uses his own expertise and anecdotes as glue to hold the research and reporting together
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Weak Hooks Make for Wimpy Stories
When a tidbit of new information interests you, use it as a story springboard, not the main hook
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Writers on Writing: Must Great Non-Fiction Storytelling Always Include Anecdotes?
Gail Post's creativity needs an outlet, so the psychotherapist can’t not write, but she does it her way
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