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The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon

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Blogs remain a key venue for communications and marketing in B2B and B2C environments. Marketing professionals put a premium on the "thought leadership" blog because it's a type of content that's concise, high-level, and can capture the attention of potential clients in the discover phase of the buy

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Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

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Atrapados en los libros (ilustración de Xuan Ioc Xuan)

If you believe the hype, Storytelling is the new, must-have business skill. Not to scare you, but it’s true: Storytelling really is the answer—to just about everything—but more than you think, Storytelling is well within your grasp.

English is a mystery to all of us, whether you've been speaking it since day one, or you've just started to learn it. From its bizarre spelling rules to its free-for-all grammar, it's a daily struggle just trying to form sentences that make sense. No wonder people are turning to emoji to express their thoughts.

Supposedly I’m a master of this language (according to my degree conferred), but I still find it astounding at times. Especially #6, words that can have two opposite meanings.

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Some lessons are harder to learn than others. Unfortunately for new copyeditors, sometimes the only way to recognize bad habits is to get slammed a few times by writers pushing back or by superviso…

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Robert Giroux on editing:

Judgment, taste, and empathy.

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All writers have an obligation to our readers: it’s the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were — to understand that truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

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“Truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are.”

"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations.... We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different."

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Learn tips and strategies that'll help you get more writing done without feeling like pulling your hair out.

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Who’s too good to need an editor? No one.

In the corporate world, it’s not uncommon for a high-level manager or executive to instruct publishing teams not to edit their work. I’ve had to cringe many a time when publishing an executive piece that has a ludicrously long title and a word count that’s double the standard, uses shameless marketing-ese or meaningless business-speak, and commits other egregious crimes against best practices. But when an executive says, “This has been approved as is; don’t edit,” what can you do?

I was recently on a phone call with a director who, speaking of his newly submitted blog post, said, “Everything I’ve written in this piece is pretty intentional, so please don’t make any edits.” Mind you, my team works with a great content management company who does an excellent job of editing. They know our style, they know the lingo of our industry, they fact check, and they make every piece they work on better than it was before. It pained me to know that the director’s ego was getting in the way of publishing a better-quality piece. A lot of authors’ egos are highly entangled with their writing--and taking pride in one’s work is no doubt a good thing; but humility will take you much farther as a writer than a sense of superiority ever will. Everybody, I mean EVERYBODY, has blind spots in their work. So if you’re a writer (or if you’re not a writer but you’ve written something) and you have the opportunity to get an experienced editor to look over you work, take advantage of it. An editor’s goal is to MAKE YOU LOOK GOOD, to ensure that your voice remains intact and that your published article is error-free.

Nobody is above the need for good editing.

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