Writing skills

Ring in the New Year with these approaches

Happy New Year! Let’s resolve to use these writing best practices in 2021:

1. Go beyond the subject line.… Read the full article

Are split infinitives still a grammar don’t?

It may be the most famous split infinitive of all time — Star Trek’s opening-sequence voice over:

“To boldly go where no man has gone before”

That’s a split infinitive, because the adverb “boldly” separates, or splits, the verb “to go.”… Read the full article

Help readers recall your message

When you organize your copy logically, readers can read it more easily and get more out of it.

Or so says Bonnie J.… Read the full article

Time to book 1st quarter 2012 workshops

Have you been thinking about bringing me in for a writing workshop early next year?

If so, let’s act fast.… Read the full article

How has technology changed our writing skills?

Do the tools we use matter?

Tears welled and teeth gnashed after the world’s last office typewriter factory — Godrej & Boyce in Mumbai, India — announced that it would close.… Read the full article

Make Ann your personal trainer

Pump up your writing with one-on-one coaching

Ever wish you had a writing coach — sort of a personal editorial trainer? In customized one-on-one consultations, I’ll help you jump-start your writing skills, recharge your batteries and get your creative juices flowing.… Read the full article

Rev up your writing

Check out the new RevUpReadership.com

We’ve revved up RevUpReadership.com, the toolbox for writers, is now better than ever. Now she’s faster, friendlier and more fascinating — not to mention waaaaay better looking.… Read the full article

Writing report card

Make sure your copy makes the grade

Too often, the job of producing communications leaves little time for considering what you’re doing well and what opportunities you have for improvement.

… Read the full article

So your writers can’t write?

Five ways to help struggling communicators

“What’s worse than training your workers and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.”
— Zig Ziglar,
motivational speaker

I was having lunch with the vice president of corporate communications at a California-based Fortune 500 company when the topic of bad writing came up.… Read the full article