The best online writers are constantly improving their work. Are you? Continuously upping one’s ante is helpful in many respects. It helps your articles continue to rank well in search engine results, it helps you garner more loyal readers, and it also helps you become a better, stronger author. Listen in to this week’s Online…
Read MoreThe Legend of Oomak
Early in September, we had a special two week long Halloween-themed Weekly Topic Inspiration session to prepare for the coming holiday. One of the Hubs shared during those weeks was Scary Halloween Campfire Tales: The Legend of Oomak by RedElf. It offers a really fun scary story alternative to those fatigued by the typical cliches so…
Read MoreHow to Write SEO-Friendly (but AUTHENTIC!) Online Titles
The line between search-engine friendliness and authenticity is fraught with peril. Many writers write witty, fun, humorous, and interesting titles that have no shot at being found by searchers. Others write titles that are so SEO-optimized that they look as though they have been written by over caffeinated robots (or, at the very least, spammers). Is it…
Read MoreRevenge of the Glowing Green Cats
What happens when electron-genetic-construct experiments go terribly, terribly wrong? Paradigmsearch explored this very potentiality in Revenge of the Glowing Green Cats, a short but highly amusing Hub. It was pretty fun to record the podcast version of this short story. Listen in if you’re on the go! Big props to paradigmsearch for turning a somewhat newsy…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Melanie Gideon
Melanie Gideon’s A Slippery Year is one of my personal favorite memoirs. It also stayed on the New York Times’ top ten best-seller list for many weeks, and received rave reviews from NPR, NY Post, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker’s Book Bench, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Magazine, Elle, Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage and others. I…
Read MoreAll About Evergreen Content
What is evergreen content? Here’s a hint- it doesn’t actually have anything to do with trees. Listen in to this Online Writing Insider podcast (All About Evergreen Content) as Robin Edmondson and Yours, Truly offer the lowdown on evergreen content. We cover a simple explanation, examples of evergreen content- as well as examples of non-evergreen…
Read MoreWhy the Zebra Has Stripes
Creation stories, ‘why’ stories, and origins stories are great fun, which is most likely why Truckstop Sally created a series of them on HubPages. This week, we’re featuring a particularly popular edition of her ‘why’ series – Why the Zebra Has Stripes. This short, fun, playful, and poignant story is sure to entertain. Big thanks…
Read MoreAll Things Ninja!
If you’re a fan of ninja, you’ll find this podcast fascinating. In this episode of Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts (Ninja Training, Origins, and Gear), Marina and I delve in to a collection of articles written by Haunty which detail the origins of ninja, their homes, their training, their clothing, and of course their weapons! You…
Read MoreHow to Sound Like a Human Online
In previous Online Writing Insider podcasts, we have alluded to the importance of sounding like a human online. Sounding authentic, and having a distinctive voice, helps you, as a writer, develop an audeince. Sounding human will also prove to your readers that you are not inauthentic (e.g. not a real expert about the subject you’re…
Read MoreThe Corpulent Vampire
A lot of folks really loved Once Upon a Childhood: Pirate Gold– a short story by Hyphenbird that we featured on an earlier Fascinating Ficiton podcast, so I thought it would be fun to share another of Hyphenbird’s short stories. The Corpulent Vampire is the tale of an undead aristocrat who, despite an all liquid…
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