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...

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

Lisa See

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

Romulus Linney

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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 is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.