Category: Writing Interactive Media
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How I’m Promoting My Upcoming Article on ‘Deinfluencing’
As I wrap up the wording and finalize the imagery for my current Medium.com project, I’ve been testing out promotional content to get people excited about reading my work! To attract the most readers and most appropriate audience possible, I’ve taken to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Threads to get some marketing material circulating. Here’s what I…
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Your First Line as Your Secret Weapon
“A lead should shine like a flashlight down through the piece.” John McPhee Let’s talk about the unsung hero of writing – the lead. You know, that opening to your piece that has the power to either capture your reader or bore them into leaving. There’s no one-size-fits-all for how to begin, but here’s the…
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Balancing Precision and Pleasure: The Duality of Writing
“You are writing primarily to please yourself, and if you go about it with enjoyment you will also entertain the readers who are worth writing for.” Zinsser, 1976/2016, p. 26 This is a statement from Zinsser’s book, On Writing Well. It’s the same book that just recently taught me I must do everything in my…
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Clear Writing, Clear Thinking, Clear Conscience
I’ve never loved writing. In school, whenever I was assigned any form of writing task beyond a mere paragraph, I would instantly fill up with dread. I knew the process could produce satisfying results, but the concept of forcing myself to sit down and inflict words upon a piece of paper to form a thoughtful…
Hana Lataille 