If you’re working on applications right now – college, vocational school, anything that requires a transcript – do yourself a favor and read today’s Cracked article about the worst mistakes students make on their college applications. If nothing else, you…
Tips for Writing Research-Based Articles
Recently, I was asked to write a long-form article about the history of anime in Japan. I was confident in my knowledge of the subject matter (that’s why they asked me, after all!), but as they say, you don’t know what you…
Author of The Art of the Deal Speaks: A Ghostwriting Master Class
Forget politics. If you have an interest in being a writer, you owe it to yourself to read this in-depth article from The New Yorker, “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All.” In it, Tony Schwartz explains every step of ghostwriting for…
The Joy of Following Convention
Thinking of being original? Before you go bucking convention, stop! Think about what your goal is. Are you just trying to be different for the sake of being different? If so, you probably shouldn’t. Convention exists for a reason, and that reason…
Full-Width Justification (as explained by XKCD)
I don’t think I’ve ever hit “print” so fast on a webcomic before, but then, most webcomics don’t illustrate formatting concepts so succinctly and clearly. (Randall Munroe does of course have practice at this sort of thing.) For the record,…