5 Websites Where Freelance Writers & Coders Can Find Work
Freelancing has its benefits, but the difficulty comes in finding people and companies to whom you can market yourself. Fortunately, there are now more places to find freelancing gigs than ever before.
4 Tips To Be A Productive Writer And Still Avoid A Blogging Burnout
Writers are particularly susceptible to burnout. You’re no longer on the top of your game. With that in mind, it’s a good idea to have some strategies to avoid burning out.
6 Ways to Get Busy People to Answer Your Emails
There are a whole different set of rules when it comes to emailing that will encourage or discourage a person to hit the "reply" button and answer you. Learn the rules of email success.
How The Internet Has Revitalized Legitimate Work At Home Jobs
Is there any truth to the work-from-home stigma? We would like to introduce two examples of today's "online workers" who work exclusively online and you can decide for yourself.
Fargo Makes Outlining On The Web Clean And Easy
For outlining, a new HTML5 web application written in JavaScript called Fargo, just might be one of the best tools for creating, storing, and collaborating on outline documents.
6 Great Apps To Improve a Writer's Creativity
Creativity is fickle. Sometimes you're on a roll, with new ideas spawning left and right, while other times you're stuffing your face into a pillow, screaming because your brain has been wrung dry. It may not be possible to be creative on demand, but you can always work towards cultivating said creativity on a daily basis. Nowadays, you can even use mobile apps to help give you a creative boost.
It’s Not Word Bling: 7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds
We, the denizens of the Web, who live and work here also call them as tag clouds. Call them “word clouds” or “tag clouds” – they are visualization tools that helps your brain process information in a rather unique way. But there’s a method behind the apparent jumble you see and they can be put to lot of uses because they help to jog our brains and make it see the mundane in alternative ways.
Gingko: An Online Word Processor That Could Change The Way You Write
At MakeUseOf, we're always on the look out for innovative text editors that can make our life as writers just a little bit easier. This relatively new service is unique and may just be the key you need to change the way you approach your writing. It could make you more productive too while making your workflow just that little bit easier.
4 Tips On How To Go Around The World With Your Travel Writing
There are few careers that are more rewarding than writing. There are few pastimes that are more rewarding than travel. It's rare that the two intersect. Only a lucky -- nay exceptional -- few have managed to build a career out of the two. But it's not only about luck, as luck often meets the prepared mind. If you have a dream to be a travel writer, these tips can help you put some preparation into the process.
Medium: An Alternative Blogging Platform From The Founders Of Twitter
Twitter's co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone launched their own blogging platform, Medium, about a year ago. The founders say that the aim is to "re-imagine" publishing, by allowing users to choose the level of collaboration they prefer. It essentially means users can post their own content, but also share them with everyone else in public collections, as similar ideas shared in such collections help deepen awareness. Think of it as Flickr Groups for blog posts.
How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive
There are certain advantages to using Google Drive for your research work. It's free and available from everywhere of course. Everyone with a Google account has it by default. Tied to your Google account, it gives you a range of collaboration options. It only gets better from here as you can use the Research tool to power all your probes and quests.
3 Free Android Apps That Can Help Improve Your English
Whether it's your first or second language, English can be tricky. Many of us use our smartphones mainly for reading and writing -- not to mention our tablets, of course. So what do you do when you come across an unfamiliar word, or when you need to write an important message on the go without making embarrassing mistakes? Today I'd like to share three free and useful apps that can help with both reading and writing English: Two dictionaries, and a keyboard.
Looking For Feedback For Your Fiction? Check Out These 4 Websites
The number one rule when writing fiction is that most of the writing happens in the rewrite. Once you've typed out that monstrous first draft, you’re going to want a fresh set of eyes (or several fresh sets of eyes) to look over your work and give you feedback. After all, you can’t fix something if you don’t know what’s wrong with it and this applies whether you’re writing novels or screenplays. One option is to utilize the free critique websites that are out there.
Roon Is A Slick, Easy-To-Use Blogging Platform You May Want to Try
While WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr dominate the blogging scene, there are a few minimalist platforms that strip down the blogging experience to focus entirely on simply sharing your writing. Roon keeps things simple, all blogs are responsive (meaning you can view blog posts on your smartphone, for example, and it adjusts to the reader's device), and couldn't be easier to use.
Stop For A Grammar Check: 4 Areas Where You Can Improve Your Spelling & Grammar
Being a freelance writer or journalist isn't easy, particularly if you write in a language that isn't your mother tongue. Yet, many foreign speakers are tempted to write in English because it promises a greater audience and thus better opportunities to earn a living. The drawback is that we are constantly struggling with the details of the little devils in the language.
How to Start a Digital Journal: A Quick Guide for Beginners
Digital journaling is here to stay. Here's how to start a digital journal on your smartphone, computer, or web browser.
Write Faster To Work Better: 5 Essential Tips To Improve Your Writing Speed Online
How do you write things at work without wasting the entire workday doing it? How do you pump out even more articles as a freelancer, without sacrificing quality? In this article, I’m going to draw from 7 years of paid freelance writing work, and 13 years of professional engineering technical writing experience, to answer those questions.