A blog post’s title has an important job: to get someone to read the post.

It holds that huge responsibility on the shoulders of about 60 to 70 characters—not a lot. That means you have to get creative to mak […]

Unless you write for an authoritative news site or have a rabid audience, you likely rely on external platforms to attract readers to your blog posts.

Whether readers click through to your site and how they […]

NAIWE prompt: Write about something in your life that is “worth it.”

I’m actually not about to write about something that’s “worth it,” but someone who is.

That would be my husband.

It’s long been my […]

This will be a short, but necessary, post. The state of our union is in some disarray after events at our nation’s capitol earlier this week. Now, I don’t get political … at least not here. But I just wanted to […]

We wanted to get to know Stephen Colwell (NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert) better, so last month we sat down with him. Here are some thoughts he shared with us.

When a freelancer is working in a team […]

NAIWE prompt: Write a story on your NAIWE blog about the holidays. At the end of your post, note the subject of the most complicated sentence you wrote.

The week before Christmas (a Friday this year), I was […]

Many Americans have been trying to find ways to earn an income working from home since the start of the pandemic, but are finding it challenging. Whether it is because they are having a hard time adapting to the […]

Hatley – Copyedited

This 150-page book spans the history of a village within Marathon County, Wisconsin. Hatley: History of a Central Wisconsin Village includes many black-and-white […]

Welcome back – me, lol. A lot has transpired since around this time last year. So buckle up. I am planning on carrying out a weekly campaign tasked to ‘make sense of it all’. So get your questions ready. We will […]

So we can all agree that 2020 was a horrific, terrible year. (The heck with euphemisms like “challenging.”) That having been said, I am going to be glad to see it go back to Hell where it came from. And I am […]

January 2: National Science Fiction Day. American author and Boston University professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov was born on January 2, 1920. He was best known for his works of science fiction and his […]

Creativity is a much-studied activity that no one truly understands. And some of what we don’t understand about it includes

how it occurs
what triggers it
how we can control it.

So in this post I […]