Writing Like a Journalist: The Inverted Pyramid

Human attention spans are short. Shorter than a goldfish, in fact. To grab your readers’ attention (and keep it), you need to get to the point, and fast. Craft the right message, at the right timeMailPoet offers a delightful email writing experience directly in your WordPress. There’s a poet in all of us.Sign up for […]

Turning Your Computer into a Typewriter

This week’s blog post is a fun one. We’re going to talk about typewriters (!?) What do typewriters have to do with email newsletters? Read on. Craft the right message, at the right timeMailPoet offers a delightful email writing experience directly in your WordPress. There’s a poet in all of us.Sign up for free

Just Sit Down and Write – Advice on Motivation from Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a writer’s writer – even today, he is still widely admired for his thoughts on the art and science of writing. His novels The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are all considered classics of American literature. Craft the right message, at the […]

5 Ways to Improve Your Focus When Writing

In this post, we’ll talk about how to cut out distractions and instead focus when writing. Let’s get to business – there’s no time to waste! 1. Do your research first If possible, try to do all of your research before writing. It’s very easy for a quick fact-check to turn into a 30-minute “lost […]

The Importance of Writing Habits for Content Creators: Advice from John Steinbeck

Even if you’re not a big reader, you’ve probably heard of the American writer John Steinbeck. Born in 1902, Steinbeck wrote some of the defining novels of the American Great Depression era, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men. If you haven’t heard of him, I particularly recommend reading […]