Writing can often feel like an isolated occupation, especially when you want feedback on your writing, or are working on a longer piece that takes a great deal of time. Many writers work from home, and miss the companionship and collaboration that other occupations provide. Joining or creating a writing group may alleviate the sense…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: How to Create Brand Awareness as a Writer
As a writer, it’s becoming more and more important to market yourself to your readers, to create a brand perception by which you will be recognized so that your readers are able to seek out your writing. Wonderful as it sounds, very few writers successfully manage to create enough awareness of themselves, let alone create…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords
As a part of our On Writing Well series we reached out to Mark Coker, the CEO and founder of Smashwords, an eBook publishing company. As so many of our Hubbers have literary ambitions and given the growing success of eBooks, I believe that Mark’s advice on writing well will be very valuable to our…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: Becoming an Interesting Writer
Very often, while I am reading articles on similar topics, I find myself drawn strongly to one, while skimming through or getting bored with others. While these articles often deal with identical topics that I am inherently interested in, there are writers whose voice, treatment of a topic, way of involving the reader are so…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Christin Evans of the Booksmith
As a part of our On Writing Well series, we reached out to the incredible Christin Evans, the owner of the best bookstore in San Francisco, the Booksmith. Christin’s job connects her to a large number of great writers, and her advice on writing is very welcome. Thanks Christin for your wise words! 1. What…
Read MoreSocial Sharing and Google: Recent Developments & Speculations
You might have read an announcement last week that Google is now allowing you to track Facebook Likes, Facebook Sends, Tweets, and, naturally, its own +1s, via Analytics and Webmaster Tools. Now that it has a social graph product (+1) that it is anxious to promote, and a social network it would like to build…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: The Importance of Structure in Writing
I am an incorrigible planner. I plan everything, down to the last detail. Yet when I am writing, I forget my planning ways, and try to write spontaneously. “I’ll be creative today!” I tell myself. “Structure is for construction, not for writing.” Yet inevitably, I run out of steam and give up on my piece.…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: How to Write a Great First Sentence
As a writer, I’m sure that you want each of your sentences to be equally perfect. To choose one as a favorite would be like a mom preferring one child over another. A terrible thought, indeed! Yet, today, I am going to persuade you, for the sake of your prose alone, to attend to one…
Read MoreWeekly Topic Inspiration: The Next Generation HubMob
For a couple of years, HubPages has offered a special program called HubMob, which offers a new search-friendly topic each week that Hubbers can write on as a group. HubMob has been an excellent help to those looking for an extra challenge, a cure for writer’s block, or simply the opportunity to write in a…
Read MoreMilestone: 100,000 questions asked on HubPages
We like to note important milestones here on HubPages, like our billionth Hub view and our millionth Hub. Milestones help remind us that we’ve come a long way as a large online writing community. One feature, our Answers section, has paired askers with answerers for the last few years, and we’ve hit an important milestone…
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