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Everybody Writes

Dear Name Redacted: Why Typos Happen, Dammit [Questions from Readers]

This is an occasional series based on actual emails I receive, and my actual responses.  Everybody Writes is just shy of its second birthday. Since its birth, I’ve heard frequently from readers who have highlighted the same few typos in the text. (Sometimes nicely. Sometimes less so.) The “few typos” sounds dismissive. But the truth […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Writing Tagged With: everybody typos, Everybody Writes, grammar tips, how to deal with typos, notes from readers, typos, wiley publishing

A Writing GPS: The Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Next Piece of Content [Infographic]

Writing GPS

The writer Andre Dubus (House of Sand and Fog) has described writing as inching your way along a very dark, very long tunnel: you can make out the next few feet in front of you, but you’re not quite certain where you’ll end up or when you’ll get there. What helps with the uncertainty and […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Business, Content, Writing Tagged With: ann handley, content marketing, Everybody Writes, how to be a better writer, infographic, Writing, writing GPS

50 Shades of Mediocrity: Does Content Have to Be Good, or Just Good Enough?

When a franchise like 50 Shades of Grey enjoys crazy success, is it a signal that content doesn’t have to be good to be crazy-successful? Popularity is only one measure of success, of course. And for most of us in the content marketing world, it’s not a very good one. Yet popularity is still very […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Content, Writing Tagged With: 50 shades of grey, content marketing, creativity, Everybody Writes, how to succeed with content, quality, ridiculously good content, Writing

Win a Free Copy of the New ‘Everybody Writes’ Audiobook

Everybody Writes

The Everybody Writes audiobook is fresh out of the recording studio! This means that you can now listen to all 8 hours and 44 minutes of the Wall Street Journal bestseller while you are in your car, working out, walking the dog… or raking, shoveling, wrapping, drinking, cooking, canoodling, prepping, pre-gaming, or whatever you might […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Business, Content, Writing Tagged With: audiobook, Cynthia Barrett, Everybody Writes, Everybody Writes audiobook

10 Ways to Create a Culture of Writing

writing pattern

Many organizations have hired a content manager or director, or chief storyteller, or chief content officer. But how can content leaders champion a more content-oriented company culture so that everybody on their team writes? I got this question recently. Let me paraphrase what that question-asker was really asking: How can you get busy coworkers (or […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Writing Tagged With: ann handley, annarchy, become a better writer, culture of writing, Everybody Writes, incorporate writing into your life

High-Fiving a Million Angels: It’s Launch Day for ‘Everybody Writes’

The sound you hear is Tina Fey high-fiving a million angels… because it’s launch day for Everybody Writes!   Good writing helps good marketers become great marketers. And today, the book is finally in stock at the bookseller of your choice. Which means the sound you might also hear is thousand book spines being cracked […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Business, Content, Writing Tagged With: Everybody Writes

13 Writing Rules

Many hold a notion that the ability to write, or write well, is a gift bestowed on a chosen few. Writing well is considered a kind of art, linked murkily to muse and mysticism. That leaves us thinking there are two kinds of people: the writing haves—and the hapless, for whom writing well is a […]

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Introducing ‘Everybody Writes’ and a Free Gift for Anti-Mediocre Writers (This Means You)

Everybody Writes cover

This is the official announcement of my new book, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to finally be sharing some details with you. I’m also excited to talk about a fun freebie for those who buy the book in the next few weeks (more on that in a sec). Writing a book is like birthing […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Annecdote, Business, Content, Writing Tagged With: Everybody Writes

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