Interested in Legal Issues? Become a Freelance Legal Writer
To make a living as a writer is hard; supplementing income through writing is by no means an easy task . Many people have the necessary skills to write, but they don’t know how to do so. It is absolutely possible to make a living writing about things you’re interested in without writing for The […]
Setting Freelance Rates
What are your rates? How much do you charge for a blog post? $15 per page? $50? $125? Do you charge by the hour or by the word? Do questions like these make you nervous? If they do, you are not alone. Many freelance writers have trouble deciding how much to charge for their work. […]
Medieval Tips for Modern Letter Writing
If you need to craft a particularly effective email, say to get your girlfriend to forgive your latest mistake, the best person to help you isn’t Dr. Phil; instead, it’s a medieval monk. Medieval monks devised a superior form of letter writing called ars dictaminis that can help everyone from content writers to boyfriends in […]
The Giving Tree(map)
Treemaps have proliferated fast and far since Ben Shneiderman invented them in 1990. One reason for this quick spread is the clarity they give to hierarchical information. The technique has a very low learning curve, but it gives very good insight into structure and quantity. Dr. Shneiderman was dealing with a whopping 80MB hard drive shared […]
A Line Walks Into a Bar
We all know visualizations can be a great way to represent data, but some visualizations are better than others at certain data. Sometimes, a bar chart is better than a line chart. This is because visualizations don’t just represent data, they also represent qualities of data. One of these qualities is the degree of continuity. […]
Avoiding Peacock and Weasel Terms
The peacock is an impressive-looking bird and the weasel is a shrewd little predator. They certainly have their place in the animal kingdom, but do they have their place in the writing world? Peacocking and weaseling may sound like strange terms when we’re talking about writing, but they should be understood if you’re on a […]
B2B vs. B2C Writing
B2B writing versus B2C writing is a complex matter, but here it will be attempted to simplify the matter as best as possible. B2B, or, business-to-business writing, is writing done in such a way that businesses are interested in other businesses to help them generate business overall. B2C writing, or business-to-consumer writing, is a business […]