Author: tmarsolais
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Content Farms vs. Hiring a Freelance Writer
During those Dark Ages of the Internet when websites were amassing huge collections of search-engine-optimized text, the demand launched a new content writing industry for websites–and, content farms flourished like Iowa corn in the middle of July. These content farms competed on a low-price business model, and writers were assembled that could produce dozens of…
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Look Up: The Perseids Meteor Shower is Upon Us
For more than 2000 years, we have records of humans enjoying a spectacle of white streaks across the night sky about this time of year. We call it the Perseids meteor shower. Though it lasts a couple of weeks, tonight is the peak viewing time with the highest number of meteors per hour, so clear…
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Writers with Drinks–Not your Average Open Mic
Writers with Drinks: 10 August 2013 Back in 2001, writer Charlie Jane Anders, assembled a group of other writers to read their work on stage. Instead of the solemn, typical performance of writers, this event is a bit more . . . shall we say, interactive–if not downright raucous. Instead of struggling, young writers reading…
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Hierarchy of Words: The Art of Word Choice
Writing is composed of sections and paragraphs. And, each paragraph is composed of sentences, and each sentence is composed of words. If you zoom your microscope any further, you would uncover letters and phonemes. Zoom back out, however, to the words. These are the playthings of poets. The tools of the word tinkerers. It’s what…
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Website Bounce Rate: What is it, and why is it Important?
Before you write your Website content (hopefully while you were planning your Website), you should have listed a few goals for your Website visitors. One of them should be that your visitors engage with your content. You want them to read through a page or two before they press the back button in their browser,…
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James Joyce – Happy Birthday!
Born on 2 February 1882, the works of this 131-year old writer are still as spry and full-of-life as ever. Historical Information The blog at the James Joyce website has a spectacular blog post about James Joyce for his birthday, and Garrison Keillor talks a little about the personality and mannerisms of James Joyce on…