Writing, Copywriting and Blogging

This page is about writing in the sense of more-or-less professional writing of substantial amounts of text. So it is not concerned with language doubts (like when to use ‘it’s’ or ‘its’ or whether a singular collective noun can take a plural verb form – try the Language Stuff page if that’s what you’re interested in), or advertising copywriting, which is a subworld all of its own. These are my favourite writing and copywriting feeds, plus a couple for those looking for writing gigs:

Copyblogger<title /> » Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of June 28, 2010

Saturday 3 July 13:10:57 CDT 2010

After Brian didn’t run last week’s Wrap-up due to alleged technical issues, I got nervous and decided that I’d better secure my position around here by showing some evil initiative. Eventually, after agonizing seconds of brain-wracking agony, I got the idea to defraud advertisers. So I called Xerox. “This site has nothing to do with copying things,” the Xerox ad … [Link]

Performancing » Creative Techniques To Help You Profit From Seasonal Blogging

Saturday 3 July 1:43:36 CDT 2010

Although many of us are blogging for the long-term in very specific niches, there exists many more dynamic opportunities to achieve blogging success as well as various styles that can be adopted. Over the years I have learned that there are some of us who have not really mastered the quality of patience and do have difficulty being committed to tasks … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons