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John Lemke

Growing Your Blog One Reader At a Time - 0 views

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  • Building your blog’s foundation requires some significant work if you want it to stand the test of time.
  • I’m talking about real people who engage with you in regards to your blog on a regular basis
  • the more you post the faster your blog will grow.
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  • a great headline
John Lemke

3 Times You Should STOP Writing - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 26 May 14
     
    While I personally feel that you should write daily, this article does give three good times to just "let go".
John Lemke

The Best Shots Fired in the Oxford Comma Wars | Mental Floss - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 06 Jun 14
     
    There has been a long debate about what some call the Oxford comma. Personally, I use it. I use it for clarity, out of habit, because I feel it "looks" right, and likely because I lean OCD. Do you use it?
John Lemke

Is Paranoia Preventing YOU From Finding Success as a Writer? | Positive Writer - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 06 Jun 14
     
    A good perspective to stay motivated.  Also includes a link to a free e-book.
John Lemke

20 Rules for Writing So Crystal Clear Even Your Dumbest Relative Will Understand - 0 views

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  • Spreading an idea means getting it from your brain into someone else’s. It means putting together the essential facts, the logical arguments and your insightful conclusions together in exactly the right way to recreate your brilliant idea in the mind of your reader.
  • Try to describe your audience with this simple formula: X who Y. For example: “Bloggers who want to get more traffic”.
  • If you can’t explain what your post is about in one simple, short sentence, it’s probably too complex or unfocused.
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  • Make sure a clear connection exists between the opening of your post and the headline.
  • If a sentence, phrase or word is particularly important or significant, use bold or italics to add stress. But don’t overdo it.
  • Always be consistent with your terminology.
  • If a point is worth making, it’s worth making twice. Or even three times.
  • Only tell them what they need to know to follow your argument. Share the minimum you need to convey the desired message.
  • Clear examples help readers understand difficult concepts.
  • Concrete language describes something detectable by the senses. Something you can see, feel, hear, smell or taste. Abstract concepts are much harder to imagine.
  • When you provide specific detail in your writing, there’s less room for ambiguity. Your reader is far more likely to end up with the same idea in their head as you have in yours.
  • Clarity does not tolerate “might,” “may” or “possibly.” If you can’t say something with certainty, perhaps you shouldn’t be writing about it at all.
  • if you’re in the business of spreading ideas, you must make friends with bullets.
  • Bullets are a valuable tool, but you should never drop your reader into a list without first setting the scene.
  • make sure each point is recognizably related to the others.
  • If you were giving your reader a list of steps, you’d present them in the order they needed doing, right? Obviously. But if the items in your list aren’t steps, they often still have a natural order – even if you didn’t have one in mind when you wrote them.
  • always supply everything the reader needs to fully understand your points within the post itself.
  • You think you’re being generous but truthfully you’re being greedy. Greedy with your reader’s time, their attention, and their patience.
  • include a clear call-to-action. Tell your reader what you want them to do.
  • John Lemke on 15 May 14
     
    20 tips on writing with clarity.
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Theme Week: Publish Your Blog Post Without SEO, and 1000s of Visits Will Be Forever Los... - 0 views

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  • Search, and Google in particular (with 90% of worldwide share), still drive vastly greater quantities of traffic than all the social networks combined (some good research from DefineMG here). Given Google’s 3.5+ Billion searches performed each day, that shouldn’t be a surprise, but to many bloggers, thinking about search, Google, and all that “SEO stuff” has been put aside in favor of Facebook shares, likes, tweets, +1s, and the more visible feedback and applause that come from social sources.
  • Thankfully, you can resolve to make this a priority in the future. It may sound like a bad infomercial, but you can substantially upgrade your blog’s SEO potential with less than 5 minutes per post. Here’s how:
  • The other keyword research source I’d encourage you to pursue is Google’s autosuggest.
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  • Once you’ve found a few keywords that might work, modify your blog post’s title to include it if you can.
  • John Lemke on 04 Jun 14
     
    Most people publish to be found and read.  If that is the case, how can you ignore SEO?
John Lemke

7 Writing Prompts to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 04 Jun 14
     
    I think these are some decent writing exercises.
John Lemke

How to Make Absolutely Sure Your Article Gets Killed - 0 views

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  • When your article assignment is to write 1,000 words and you turn in 2,000 words, it creates all kinds of problems for your editor. She’ll need to comb through your article and decide which 1,000 words she can cut. After all, she has only so much space, so she has to make it fit. Now, don’t get all wishy-washy on me and turn the extra material into a bonus sidebar. Just squish all those extra words in there and let your editor deal with it.
  • Avoid showing even a modicum of personality. If you want your article killed, it should look like it was written by a robot…a robot that doesn’t speak English.
  • When you get an assignment, your client will send you a little thing called an assignment letter, which details the specs of the assignment. Ignore this.
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  • If those don’t work out, over-rely on source-finding services like ProfNet and Help a Reporter Out, using whoever happens to respond — and whatever you do, do NOT check out the sources you get from there to make sure they’re credible.
  • When the editor asks you for backup on your facts, tell him you’re the backup. And whenever you get the chance, inject your opinion into the article.
John Lemke

5 Books Freelancers Should Read Now - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 22 Aug 14
     
    Five books for the freelancer. I added them to my list.
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Corroboratively vs. Collaboratively - 0 views

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  • The verb corroborate means “to strengthen or confirm.”
  • John Lemke on 22 Aug 14
     
    One means to strengthen, the other involves working as part of a team.
John Lemke

Avoid Loser Writing Clients With This Quickie Checklist - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 27 Jul 14
     
    I made it a pledge to start be serious about my freelance work in January.  This list could have saved me a few courses at the school of hard knocks.
John Lemke

9 Things I Did To Become A Full-Time Writer - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 26 Jul 14
     
    A great list!  9 great tips for any aspiring author.
John Lemke

How Many Tenses in English? - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 30 Jul 14
     
    Linguistically there are only two but...
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How To Become A Prolific Writer While Holding Down A Day Job | Positive Writer - 0 views

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  • The author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), continued to work day jobs throughout his life.
  • Other authors who held down day jobs throughout their writing careers include Bram Stoker, Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, among many others.
  • she wrote the bestselling book Interview With The Vampire while working her day job as an insurance claims examiner.
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  • Having a day job makes it imperative that I allocate time for writing. I insure I write at least 2 hours before I go to work come rain or shine. And I do this by following my rituals every morning without fail.
  • Regardless of what time I work (shift work), I wake up at least 3 hours prior and like clockwork, 1) I brush my teeth, 2) make breakfast, 3) sit down at my desk, 4) check emails, 5) check in on my social connections and finally 5) after stretching my legs for a moment, I write on cue for at least two hours.
  • ake note of the things you do consistently every day before and after work.
  • Create a space of time within your current daily rituals for writing every day. Make sure it’s at a time of day that works best for you.
  • Commit.
  • I highly recommend creating a writing sanctuary for yourself, somewhere you only go to write, and therefore, your mind will associate being there with writing.
  • John Lemke on 03 Jul 14
     
    A good PMA oriented article.
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