Why Concept-Based Content Gets Better Search Results Ideas and concepts drive search results in today’s SEO environment. In this new search world it’s about discoverability, not links or keywords. Semantic search, like our own minds, looks for “key concepts” and not keywords. Think of it this way. A reader will skim your page to see … More Why Concept-Based Content Gets Better Search Results
Omnipotent Characters: Why Marvel Sidelined Thor, Vision, and Captain Marvel Warning: Spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame ahead! Early on in Avengers: Infinity War, one of the film’s most powerful characters, Vision, gets stabbed in the stomach. The moment is shocking, yes, but it’s also important to the plot, effectively sidelining Vision for … More Omnipotent Characters: Why Marvel Sidelined Thor, Vision, and Captain Marvel
How to Use MindMeister as a Novel Roadmap Mind maps have been a useful tool for creative folks to brainstorm for quite a while. Remember the old days when you’d draw a circle in the middle of a piece of paper and draw lines from there to connect your thoughts? It’s much easier today. Why … More How to Use MindMeister as a Novel Roadmap
How to Use Trello to Storyboard Your Novel You may have noticed that we at ProWritingAid have a fondness for technology that makes writers better, stronger, more organized, and highly productive. If you like creating a storyboard for your novels, or if you want an innovative app to capture all of your to-do’s for your … More How to Use Trello to Storyboard Your Novel
5 Helpful Tools for the Constant Blogger Love blogging? Us too! In fact, there’s no better time to be a blogger. It’s easier than it’s ever been to share your writing with the world. Furthermore, there are tons of tools out there to help you get started, build your audience, and sustain success. In this … More 5 Helpful Tools for the Constant Blogger
30 Words You Are Probably Getting Wrong! We all have our pet peeves, but if words are your thing, someone who inadvertently butchers their meaning rubs you the wrong way. You may, however, be guilty of inadvertently butchering words yourself. Here are 30 words you are probably getting wrong. Contents: The list Final thoughts The … More 30 Words You Are Probably Getting Wrong!
What We Can Learn About Writing from “Hamilton” Hamilton is an international sensation. Fusing hip-hop and musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda created an impressive telling of Alexander Hamilton’s life story. As writers, there’s a lot we can learn from the show, its creation, and its namesake. As Aaron Burr says in Aaron Burr, Sir, let me … More What We Can Learn About Writing from “Hamilton”
10 Tips to Get Your Work Noticed on Medium In the sea of professional writers, we all just want to get our voice heard and share our valuable thoughts to the world. Standing out among many writers on Medium is undoubtedly a difficult task. If you have been publishing for quite some time on Medium … More 10 Tips to Get Your Work Noticed on Medium
How to Create Fantastic Metaphors Aristotle said a metaphor was “the act of giving a thing a name that belongs to something else.” It allows you to pack a powerful punch in a few words. Your reader can take their full understanding of one thing and apply it to another thing. By writing, “my cubicle … More How to Create Fantastic Metaphors
7 Things Your Character Is Hiding Being able to write realistic, consistent, multi-dimensional characters is vital to gaining reader interest. Doing so first requires we know a lot about who our characters are—you know, the obvious stuff: positive and negative traits, behavioral habits, desires, goals, and the like. But it’s not always the obvious … More 7 Things Your Character Is Hiding
