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My Favorite Writing Tips of the Year

A New 'Covid Moment' for Writers

7 Ways to Make Readers Stop Reading

How to Write Successful Year-End Stories

Why it Works: A Story About Medical Emergencies

What are Your Story’s Strongest Assets?

Use Mind-Wandering to Fuel Your Creativity

Why it Works: A Story About Air Pollution and Skin Care

Post-Election Writing Advice

Writers Often Mislead Readers on Vital Statistics

Why it Works: A Story About Brain Retraining

Why I Never Type Anyone’s Name

Why it Works: A Story about Domestic Parity

Intellectual Humility: The Secret to Great Writing

Want to Write Better? Edit the Writing of Others

Write Stories, Not Articles

The Most Important Words in Your Story

The Unparalleled Power of Verbs

Fundamental Elements of a Good Story (Remix)

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me

What Inspires You?

Building Trust: Facts vs. Opinions

How to Write Successful Health and Science Articles

Join Me LIVE on Medium Day

Overused Writing Devices to Avoid Like the Plague

The Antidote to Algorithms: Quality Storytelling

Skepticism: The Writer’s Most Important Skill

When and Why to Focus on the What in Your Story

A Day in The Life of Rob, a Very Busy Writer and Editor

The Critical Importance of a Final Checklist

Why I Write for 12-Year-Olds

Where Have all the Readers Gone?

The No-AI Logo: Standing for Human-Generated Writing

Writing is 70% Creativity, 80% Hard work, and 90% Methodology

Get This: 50 Practical Writing Tips

The Best Headlines: Short and Simple

6 Specific Ways I Find Story Seeds

Why Hooking Stories to Holidays is Risky

To Write Well, You Must Sleep Well

You Can’t Please Everyone with Your Writing

Writers on Writer’s Block

The Illusion of Writer’s Block

Give Your Sources Some Credit

How to Find and Improve Your Writing Voice

20 Words Writers Screw Up Often

How a Trip to the ER Spawned Two Story Ideas

How to Optimize Image Selection and Placement

How to Maximize ‘Topic’ Tags on Medium

Survey: What Writing Challenges Vex You Most?

Improve Your Writing with These 3 ‘Specific’ Tips

My Favorite Self-Editing Trick: Stick the Story in a Drawer

Don’t Get Sued for Unintentional Image Theft

Don’t Ask Questions in Your Stories

How to End a Story

How to Make Your Article Stand Out

10 Writing Tips from a Book Every Writer Should Own

Where Do Great Story Ideas Come From?

How Much Time Should You Spend Writing a Story?

Sure-Fire Ways to Fail at Freelancing

How Image Choices Can Stigmatize, Even When the Story is Responsible