By Doreen Martel on being a writer for Verblio. You want to work at home. One of your primary skills is writing. You found a lot of writing sites online, but some of them are questionable. Some sites want you to pay a fee; others have demanding experience requirements. If you want to know what it’s…
We do a lot of reading at Verblio (formerly BlogMutt), both in the office and outside of it. We read blogs, we write blogs, we edit blogs, we read books, and we evaluate writing. We’ve all learned what good writing looks like, what good blogging practices are, and how to get better at both. Here…
Some say that the first rule of learning English is that there are no rules. Bill Bryson explained the complexity of the English language in this way: English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin—a language with which it has precious little…
Blog introductions are like first dates. You only get one, and if you fail to pique the interest of your date (or ramble on about your five cats), he or she probably won’t stick around to see what comes next. Making bad first impressions can be a bummer for your love life, and it can be equally disastrous…
Did we get your attention with that headline? It’s short, to the point, and tells you exactly what you’re getting. If it made you want to read this article, then it did its job. That’s step one to keep your readers engaged. But where do you go from there? After you’ve written a compelling title,…
By Leslie A. Cook, a lifelong student, writer, researcher, cook, and organic vegetable gardener.