Writer Joe Carlen’s new article on blog writing, webtext and social media posts.

18 Aug, 2018

Joe Carlen, one of our expert writers, sent over a new article on writing website content, business blog post and social media text. It is now up on this website. I thought you would find it useful so I'm bring it to your attention. Joe has a Master’s degree in Information Systems majoring in E-Commerce and has extensive experience helping business people turn their websites into money makers, by writing and editing for the sites themselves as well as related social media pages. Check out his new article here. Enjoy! Now, if you'd like Joe to help you, my phone number is on the logo, above.

Writer Joe Carlen’s new article on blog writing, webtext and social media posts.

August 18, 2018May 9, 2025

Joe Carlen, one of our expert writers, sent over a new article on writing website content, business blog post and social media text. It Read More...

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

Easy reading is damn hard writing.