by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 29, 2015 | Writing
“It’s hard to see a middle ground between marking up your book line by line and doing a complete rewrite. It’s also hard to know what to fix in revision, and even harder to know when that process is finished.” —Gabriela Pereira In the September...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 22, 2015 | Author Website
“In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It’s a relief.” —David McCandless (data-journalist, and information designer)I think watching what your website...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 8, 2015 | Writing
“I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.” — Aidan ChambersAsk these 6 questions about your paragraphs. I’ll use the following paragraph as an example.1Before the fateful telephone call, Ella put...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 1, 2015 | Writing
“[Word usage is] something teachers generally expect you to pick up on your own, and it’s the thing you’re most likely to get skewered for if you screw up.” — Mignon FogartyBelow are common word-usage errors. My resources are Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Sep 24, 2015 | Blogging
“Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.” — Neil PatelHere’s a model that has kept me:Constant in publishing blogsConsistent outside and inside my contentConcise in wording my contentClear in my contentCreative...
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