Now here’s why I think writing more is the right strategy. The wrong strategy is to write less often but increase the quality.
Editors are really valuable, and, the way things are going, undervalued. These are people who are good at process. They think about calendars, schedules, checklists, and get freaked out when schedules slip. Their jobs are to aggregate information, parse it, restructure it, and make sure it meets standards. They are basically QA for language and meaning.
Narratology denotes both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception
This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words.
If a reader were reading only your five to 10 words, would he or she know what the article is about?
More than one in ten Caucasians may have a “Churchill gene” which helps them turn booze into great works
Barack Obama’s inaugural address is proving to be more powerful in the reading than it was in the hearing.
As you type, option-click on a word to find a rhyme for it...
One book, Koizora (Love Sky) about high-school girl who is bullied, gang-raped, becomes pregnant has sold more than 1.2 million copies since being released.
In many cases, an editor would be a great addition to our process as well as, in some cases, a better and more rational investment than a copywriter.