All posts by Ty Cohen

  • Keeping your Web Writing Simple For The Masses - Writer's Life
    Keeping your Web Writing Simple For The Masses

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! In 1964, Richard Hofstadter wrote a Pulitzer-prize-winning book called Anti-Intellectualism in America. This rich, thorough book exposed the thread of anti-intellectualism that runs through the culture of practical America....

    • Posted May 19, 2015
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  • E.B. White On How to Write For Children

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! In a 1969 interview, included in the altogether unputdownable The Paris Review Interviews, vol. IV (public library) — which also features wonderfully wide-ranging conversations with Haruki Murakami, Maya Angelou,...

    • Posted May 18, 2015
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  • Use Subheads to Keep Readers Hooked On Your Writing

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing. The best tool you have in your arsenal is something that far too many bloggers overlook. The subhead. That’s right – the often overlooked subhead is really a stealthy...

    • Posted May 15, 2015
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  • Use Photos to Cure Writer's Block - Writer's Life.org
    Use Photos to Cure Writer’s Block

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! Staring at a blank white screen can make a writer, or any person for that matter, go entirely mad. The pressure to fill the empty document with letters and...

    • Posted May 14, 2015
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  • 3 Ways3 Ways For Coping With Rejection
    3 Ways For Coping With Rejection

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Like Writing. Rejection is part of a writer’s life. Anyone who wants to make it as a writer needs to learn to face rejection bravely, gracefully, and frequently. Three tips for...

    • Posted May 13, 2015
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  • Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules For Writers - Writer's Life.org
    Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules For Writers

    Share, Pin or Retweet. These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. If...

    • Posted May 12, 2015
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  • Advice About Writing For Science From Deborah Blum - Writer'
    Advice About Writing For Science From Deborah Blum

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Like Writing. An interview with author, blogger and Professor of Journalism Deborah Blum What’s a good science story? Beyond the incoming asteroid story, you mean?  I’m never been a writer who...

    • Posted May 11, 2015
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  • How to Turn Your Blog Into A Book - Writer's Life.org
    How to Turn Your Blog Into A Book

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! The idea of writing a whole book can be pretty daunting. Even if you’re a fairly experienced writer, you might think it’s beyond you. But if you’ve been blogging...

    • Posted May 7, 2015
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  • A Writer Writes About Writing - Writer's Life.org
    A Writer Writes About Writing

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! Write. Write when you are exhausted. Write when you are awake. Write when the dead speak to you; write when they are silent and they need to be spoon-fed...

    • Posted May 6, 2015
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  • Write What You Want and Still Get Paid!

    Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! It’s been said that a good writer can write about anything. That might be true, but it’s usually mentioned as a subtle jab when you’re resisting an assignment. And...

    • Posted May 5, 2015
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