Last year I took Jeff Brown’s ‘Writing your Way Home’ course. It was an online course over 6 weeks. Due to other commitments at the time I just about managed to cover the one hour long audio session each week. And I wrote one or two pieces a week that I submitted to our online […]
Writing – Write! Write! Write! This writing advice given to me in the autumn by a super lady, Catrin George who I met in Portugal. Catrin is a tour guide and author. For a while now I’ve been thinking about taking a sabbatical from my web content writing and taking a different turn. Well, how […]
Search engine optimisation Let’s face it. All websites need SEO. If a website isn’t optimised then new customers can’t ‘see’ it. And if your prospective customers can’t ‘see’ your site in their Google searches, then what’s the point of investing in a website? Many of my prospective clients who contact me needing web content are confused […]
I went glamping for the first time last weekend, and loved it. Truly, madly, deeply. As I write this post, I’m asking myself, how can I tie-in this glamping experience in to my ‘All Things Creative’ articles? Well, that’s not difficult. Everything about my glamping experience exploded in creativity. From the sleekly curved luxury wooden glamping […]
My dream web content writing job My dream writing job popped up late last year. I’m now in my 10th year of working freelance as a web content writer and all I can say is that it’s certainly been worth the wait. Web content writing about VW Campervans And the topic? VW Campervans!! Amazing. I adore […]
Are you feeling twitterpated today? Or are you feeling frabjous? These two words popped up on Dictionary.com last week and immediately caught my eye. Before I looked up their meanings I tried to guess. Could twitterpated mean a ‘twitter overload’ and frabjous something along the lines of a new fruit juice? No. Twitterpated means excited or overcome by romantic […]
I’ve just created this beautiful word cloud (via jasondavies.com word generator) from words that I’ve used in my blog. And yay!! The top 7 words that stand out the most are: Words, Writing, Content, Creative, Web, Nia, Freelance and….um…. Fish! Phew! Being that I’m a freelance web content writer (who focuses on creativity with words), […]
Since going freelance nine years ago and spending long chunks of time in isolation sitting in front of a screen being a Web Content Writer, I have battled with the question ‘am I doing this for the love of it?’ Yes, writing web content is a skill I can offer and a skill that fits in […]
My job is all about ‘words’ and making ‘words’ work in my role as Web Content Writer. This week’s Word of the Week is ……. JUGGLING I suddenly realised this week how important the word juggling is to me. I spend most of my days juggling. Not in the physical sense of juggling balls, plates or sticks […]
My job is all about ‘words’ and making ‘words’ work in my role as Web Content Writer. So, I’ve resurrected my ‘word of the week’ blog spot. It focuses on words that I like, words that ‘strike a chord’ with me, words that are different or unusual, and words that are relevant to me at […]