8 ways blogging is like bicycling
Bicycling is my favorite summer exercise. The more I bike, the more I’m struck by the similarities between bicycling and blogging. 1. It gets easier with practice Falling off and skinning my knees when I learned to ride a two-wheeler was no fun. But after a while, I stopped falling and I covered every mile […]
“Within” vs. “in”
You can usually replace “within” with “in” to streamline your writing. “The change almost always improves a sentence,” as Bruce Ross-Larson says in Edit Yourself: A manual for everyone who works with words. However, there are exceptions. For example, as Michael Strumpf and Auriel Douglas say in The Grammar Bible: An event that will take […]
Credit sources fairly in your financial blog posts
You want to do the right thing when you find an interesting idea, statistic, or quote that you use on your blog. That means crediting your source. How much information must you provide? Citation rules for blogs aren’t as clear as for books, where sources such as The Chicago Manual of Style lay out rules. […]
Don’t break up your text too much!
I’m a big fan of breaking up text with headings and paragraph breaks. But sometimes you can go too far with this, as Roy Peter Clark reminded me in How To Write Short: Word Craft For Fast Times. If you have an opportunity to make all of your text viewable on one page, consider taking […]
7 ways to manage writing by committee
The best way to manage writing by committee? Avoid it. As Ann Handley says in Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content, Having a buddy by your side is helpful. Having an entire committee on your back? Not so much. However, writing in a regulated industry means that many of you must […]