Literacy isn’t an easy skill to have, especially when it comes to the English language. Even the accomplished writer can get confused with all the dumb rules that it seems to have. At the same time, many of us nowadays use text as one of our primary forms of communication. When most of us have …
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Writer Memes For Procrastinating Authors Struggling With Writer’s Block
I’m a writer who doesn’t procrastinate…mostly. When I have a work or school deadline, I cannot procrastinate. The words need to get onto the page one way or another. It doesn’t matter if the words are brilliant or foolish; they’re getting written either way. That’s all well and good for writing when the alternative is …
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Cringey Posts About Books and Reading That Give Bibliophiles a Bad Name
As someone with a lifelong love of books and words, I maintain that almost anybody who self-defines as a ‘reader’ is usually a deeply annoying person. More often than not, they have a weird fixation with making introversion a defining personality trait, and they probably get into the dumbest arguments on Twitter. Oh, and don’t …
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Clueless Recruiter Rejects Technical Writer With 8 Years of Experience For Being «Too Inexperienced»
Applying for jobs is tough; every entry-level position wants 3-5 years of experience, which makes the distinction of «entry-level» an oxymoron. Most career coaches will tell you to apply for jobs you’re inexperienced in anyways because, usually, the people writing the job ads set the bar higher than they need to in order to draw …
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Hilarious Spelling Fails That Highlight the Power of Proofreading
It’s easy to write something and never go back to edit it. After all, there are only so many hours in a day to get things done, and in many jobs, if you throw something onto the page, often nobody will clock your errors. No matter your job, it’s usually a good idea to know …
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Writer Memes For Procrastinating Authors Dealing With Writer’s Block
I’m a writer who doesn’t procrastinate…mostly. When I have a work or school deadline, I cannot procrastinate. The words need to get onto the page one way or another. It doesn’t matter if the words are brilliant or foolish; they’re getting written either way. That’s all well and good for writing when the alternative is …
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People Debate the Dubious Usefulness of Cover Letters
It takes a very specific breed of person to enjoy the process of a job search, and by this I mean somebody who is either a complete psychopath, or has an automatic leg up thanks to all of their dad’s rich and powerful friends (better still, maybe they are part of both categories!). The action …
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Brainless Men Who Wrote Women in a Truly Terrible Way
I’d like to be an optimist about the whole debacle that is gender relations. We may struggle under thousands of years’ worth of sexist principles, but with a little effort to learn things might get better eventually. In some ways, they already have, but it’s easy to look at certain areas of life and feel …
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Literary Memes for Voracious Bookworms
It may be hard for us to believe now, but there was a time when we did most of our reading off of a page instead of a screen. Despite the best efforts of technological advancement to squash the traditional version of the written word, books still rule when it comes to novels, cookbooks, poetry …
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Brilliant Twitter Thread Roasts The Way Male Authors Describe Women
Thank you, Literary Twitter for starting our new favorite hashtag challenge. The fun stems from the #OwnVoices hashtag, which addresses the voices of marginalized communities. The hashtag naturally had its critcs; among them was a male author that insisted he was living proof that men are capable of penning realistic female characters. After Gwen C. …
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