Resource Review: Writer’s Digest

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Writer’s Digest provides information to and serves a community-building function for writers interested in building their skill set and getting published. If you are interested in writing, editing, grammar, publishing, or inspiration, keep listening.

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Articles from Writer’s Digest

7 Tips for Effectively Engaging a Virtual Audience (Dina Ghawi)

75 Grammar Rules for Writers (Robert Lee Brewer)

How to Write More in the Time You Have (J.J. Hanna)

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Hi there. I’m Allison, a communication consultant at Allison Stein Consulting, LLC. Today I want to take a closer look at one of my favorite editing and publishing resources: Writer’s Digest.

Writer’s Digest provides information to and serves a community-building function for writers interested in building their skill set and getting published.

If you are interested in writing, editing, grammar, publishing, or inspiration, keep listening.

Writer’s Digest has discussed platforms for connecting with readers, guidance on grammar and commonly confused grammar rules, and aspects that influence the writing life and either fill or deplete creative wells, such as issues with or strategies for mindset and time management.

Let’s talk about some key articles.

In “7 Tips for Effectively Engaging a Virtual Audience,” Dima Ghawi recommends taking advantage of online platforms by providing registered attendees with a survey and tailoring the presentation to their interests and inquiries; dedicating a clean, distraction-free space in one’s home for the event; and approaching the presentation as a dialogue with the audience to mitigate the information overload and distractions listeners may be especially prone to in an online event.

In “75 Grammar Rules for Writers,” Robert Lee Brewer lists a variety of grammar and usage errors, each containing a link to a more detailed explanation provided on the Writer’s Digest website. This serves as a roundup post where readers can check out the list for topics of interest.

In “How to Write More in the Time You Have,” J.J. Hanna offers productivity hacks that include evaluating current time and energy commitments, taking advantage of short breaks between events and meetings to write or think, and using tools and technologies that speed up routine processes, such as social media schedulers.

Content on the Writer’s Digest website ranges from specific grammar and usage rules to broader strategies for writing well to even broader strategies for cultivating a writer’s mindset and a healthy writing practice. The good news is, categories make it easier for readers to sift through the vast array of blog entries. In many cases, there is more than one mental map for the content available. For example, readers can find a group of posts based on the criterion of genre (nonfiction, fiction, and poetry) or writing goal (Get Published, Be Inspired, and so on).

It is important to note that the Writer’s Digest website is only one facet of the entire Writer’s Digest brand. WD also has a magazine and book series that relate to and overlap with the blog entries on Writer’s Digest.

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