Yesterday I awoke to the sad news that William Zinsser, the writer, teacher, and author of “On Writing Well” and many other books about writing, had passed away. I wrote about Zinsser in an earlier post this year, but in the past 24 hours, I’ve had time to reflect again on what I’ve learned from him. I thought… Continue reading
Yesterday I awoke to the sad news that William Zinsser, the writer, teacher, and author of “On Writing Well” and many other books about writing, had passed away. I wrote about Zinsser in an earlier post this year, but in the past 24 hours, I’ve had time to reflect again on what I’ve learned from him. I thought… Continue reading
More than 50,000 blog posts are published on LinkedIn every week. What topics should you write about? How long should your posts be? How do you get your post tagged under a Pulse channel? For answers to these and other questions, I invited LinkedIn Senior Editor Isabelle Roughol to join me on my new podcast, Write With Impact. Isabelle… Continue reading
A little more than a year ago I started blogging on LinkedIn. Since then, I’ve published more than 40 posts. The response? Pretty remarkable. My posts have attracted over 200,000 views, and tens of thousands of likes, social shares, and comments. I’ve also met new people from around the world, made new friends, and have… Continue reading
My mom loves to read, and it was largely thanks to her encouragement and guidance that I too have grown to become a lifelong reader. Moms shape a child’s reading life in a number of ways: Moms are often a child’s first reading teacher. Well before programs like Hooked on Phonics were available to help kids… Continue reading
Today I’m going to mix it up a bit and do what I call a “coffeecast.” It’s just going to be me and the microphone. I thought I’d talk about a topic that is not exactly about writing, but is definitely relevant to writing. Reading! Yes, reading. Reading is so important to becoming a good… Continue reading
Self-publishing on Amazon is all the rage today. It gives authors of fiction and non-fiction a platform to turn their manuscript into a published book available for sale to readers around the world in a fraction of the time that it normally takes with a traditional publisher. And the profit margins are higher: compare the… Continue reading
Steve Scott has built a highly successful business by self-publishing Kindle books on Amazon. Starting from literally zero just a few years ago, today he’s earning anywhere from $20,000 to upwards of $60,000 per month publishing books on a range of highly practical topics, with a focus most recently on personal productivity and developing good… Continue reading
I often struggle with the blank page. I fight to get started. I worry about what people will think. I fret over the number of “likes” and social shares that my posts will earn. And, I sometimes give up before I even get started, relegating the few words I can squeeze out of my head… Continue reading
Isaac Stone Fish is Asia editor at Foreign Policy, where he edits, reports, and writes stories from across the region. Previously a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Isaac spent seven years living in China before joining Foreign Policy. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, and the Los… Continue reading