I live not too far from DC and I tend to talk to a lot of writers who also specialize in writing for online markets and clients. The combination of that career path and that geographic location means that I’m constantly meeting ex-AOL employees who have been writing online content for well over a decade…sometimes [...]

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It seems like high school teachers spend a lot of time trying to keep their students off of Facebook, avoiding Wikipedia and generally preparing for careers in the ‘real’ world. But considering how many employers are looking for at least a minimal level of technical literacy these days, it seems crucial to get those same [...]

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I have a running argument going with my spell-check: it claims that I should write ‘behavior’ when I’m pretty sure ‘behaviour’ is the correct spelling. The issue is that the spell-check uses American spelling, and I’ve somehow gotten in the habit of using one or two British spellings. I correct myself and go with the [...]

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How much HTML does a writer need to know? I’ve always associated knowing at least a little bit of markup language with writing professionally, oddly enough. I know that isn’t the normal way of thinking about the topic, but it grew out of an internship at a daily paper.
The paper in question used what might [...]

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I’m a junkie for the written word. As I moved to writing more online, I found that I was reading online more as well. In part that fact is due to the fact that I was just spending more time online in general. But reading online is more than just a side affect: it’s a [...]

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Every wanna-be novelist I know is planning on writing 500 words a day in 2009.
On an average day, I write around 5,000 words.
I’m the first to admit that I’m not writing the Great American Novel here. But to make a good living writing for the web, 500 words just isn’t going to cut it. That’s [...]

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