For my early career, I was simply a byline. I spent a decade as a journalist in the Kootenays delivering valuable news, before deciding I wanted to get my feet wet in the non-profit realm. Leveraging my writing skills, I built campaigns that increased awareness, highlighted important work in my...
Keeping up a regular blog seems like it should be as natural as breathing for a writing/editing company — a basic rite of passage. And with generative AI growing by leaps and bounds, you may even think, “Can’t the robots do that now?” ...
The most memorable rules are the ones spoken in absolutes: i before e, except after c; never end a sentence with a preposition; never start a sentence with and, but, however, or hopefully. But when you learn that those absolutes all have innumerable weird exceptions, your whole world shatters and...
Comedy writing is hard. First of all, what's funny is often subjective, which makes it especially tricky. There's the ever-looming risk of the cliché. It's easy to sound hackneyed, especially if you're new to writing funny. And it can be discouraging when it isn't as respected as "serious" writing, but...
People often use the words ‘copy’ and ‘content’ interchangeably, although they aren’t exactly the same thing. Sure, they both involve words - but it’s what those words are doing that marks the difference. Why should you care? Can't you leave this up to the writers or the marketing experts or...