Last week Rachel had a Significant Birthday, so we're giving you a birthday present. All you have to do is enrol yourself (or a group) in our Diploma in Web Content before midnight, 19 March 2010. With every enrolment before...
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Posts tagged "Writing"
Book titles are hard to write
I find writing books easy and fun, but writing a book title terribly painful. (This is Rachel talking, by the way.) And so much depends on the title—sales, for instance! By sheer luck, my latest book has a pretty good...
Why we don't do in-house, face-to-face training in writing for the web
Do we provide in-house training in writing for the web? Not any more. Recently an email arrived from a large non-profit organisation in Colorado Springs. That's a long way from Wellington, New Zealand. Could we provide 2 days of in-house...
Writers' blogging block: just habit
How alarming! My blogging rate has slowed down from lively to sluggish. This must change. Sure, I had excuses. In the last couple of weeks I've launched a book which involved a certain amount of effort and publicity (Scarlet Heels:...
George Orwell father of plain language
Plain, yes. Boring, no. Barbarous, never. 2010 is a big George Orwell year: the 60th anniversary of his death occurred in January. John Rossi summarises Orwell's life work in the Philadelphia Inquirer. George Orwell's advice on writing style is recycled...