Blogs vs Articles – What’s the Difference?

By Carol Tice As the blog emerged over the past decade, an entirely new format for communicating took shape. At this point I find the line between a blog and an article often blurs — you see long blogs with many interviews, and short articles with many bloggy...

Should Your Blog Divorce Your Writer Website?

By Carol Tice Freelance writer Lynn Fisher recently wrote me with this question about blogging and Web sites: …I wondered if there was any benefit to having a separate blog and web-site. I have a blog (mostly to save money and time because I have a full-time job...

Writing Gigs You Never Thought of: Community Moderator

By Carol Tice Today I’d like to talk about a growing writing niche that’s a bit off the beaten trail — community moderating. Indeed.com recently had 83 job listings for community moderators, both for free local forums and for pay, moderating online...

How to Earn Well Writing Reported Articles

By Carol Tice One of the comments I get a lot from writers who started at content sites is that they can’t imagine how they could write fully reported stories and still earn well. They take so much time! Finding sources, setting up interview times, talking to...

Your Writer Website – Where Are the Clips?

By Carol Tice I’ve got a bone to pick today with writer Web sites. I look at a lot of them for my mentees, and over time I’ve found many of them have the same problem. No clips. That’s right. You go to a writer’s Web site and they’ve got...