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The more creative work you produce, the better your chances of making a masterpiece.

What is voice and tone in writing? Why should you even care? Does it REALLY matter? Yes, yes it does. Here's why your voice and tone is so important.

All successful content marketing is successful in the same way. At least, that was our instinct and we wanted to prove it. We’ve seen many blog posts take off, delivering a steady flow of organic traffic for months and years. We’ve also seen plenty of posts flop, hitting a flatline within a day or two of publishing.

You’re likely doing this for all the wrong reasons. I've grown weary of all the writers who just put down words and hope they turn into money by some magic machine. So, here's your solution.

Just ask those who've been around the block a few times and carry a lot more baggage.

Have you ever wondered why a green lock icon appears on your browser URL bar? And why is it important? We did too, and this comic is for you! Follow the adventures of Certificat, Browserbird, and Compugter as they explain why HTTPS is crucial for the future of the web and how it all works together. Don't let the bad crabs get you (you'll know what we mean in the comic). Get to know HTTPS and why it is essential to your privacy.

Over the last few weeks, the phrase, “I haven’t found my voice” has been echoing in my head. I believe this young man wants to share his ideas badly but there is something getting in his way. He is not alone. There are thousands of people out there who want and deserve to be heard. Once I realized this, I began to ask myself, how does one find his or her voice?

Content marketing is vital in today's world. Constantly generating content marketing ideas is difficult, however, without a strong plan and strategy.

Why are so many YouTubers finding themselves stressed, lonely and exhausted?

This blog is mostly about learning computer programming / systems. Probably 70% of these posts are in one way or another about things I’ve learned and why they’re exciting. But how do you teach yourself hard things? I’ve talked before about having a growth mindset, which is about replacing the belief “I’m bad at X” with “I’m haven’t learned about X yet”. Having a positive attitude is really important, but IMO by itself it’s not enough to learn hard things. Learning is a skill which takes a lot of work to get better at. So this blog post is about specific learning skills that I’ve worked on over time.

Whenever I get impatient waiting for results, I remind myself that it takes three years to accomplish anything meaningful.

When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age.

Writing great blog post titles doesn't have to be hard. Here are five frameworks to help you write better titles for every article you create.

It's called Writing A Compiler In Go and is the sequel to Writing An Interpreter In Go.

The author Laura van den Berg on what inspired her newest novel, "The Third Hotel," and how she accesses the part of the mind that fiction comes from.

It takes a lot of variables to create the perfect environment for true purpose.

They add up over time.

It doesn't exist. So get moving.

If you don’t have something to say, document. It’s the advice I give to my entire community. Create a podcast, start a blog, do a Q&A show. All of it works.

Perhaps you’re a natural-born writer who has never struggled to come up with a topic for your blog or worried about how you’ll ever finish a complete book. If that describes you, congratulations! You’re a rare breed, indeed. If, however, you’re like most writers — including myself — then you know how labor-intensive writing can become.

New research casts doubt on what's become a standard practice.

Better books than you or I will ever write, were written without the aid of a laptop. In fact, they were written without the aid of a computer at all. Pens and paper ruled the day. Humanity landed on the moon without Retina screens, believe me. Governments were toppled without Tom Cruise and satellites, albums were produced without Pro Tools and the best artists in the world didn’t need an iPad Pro.

I have never suffered from writer’s block for lack of ideas. If anything, I get too many ideas and then a sort of a bottleneck effect happens, when all sorts of ideas become lodged in my mind and I have trouble disgorging them. I call it my Christmas lights effect. For me, it’s like taking your last year’s Christmas lights out of the box and finding them all knotted up together, in one giant ball of lights. Then you have to untangle the entire thing, it takes forever, there is much cursing and, in the end, the whole thing might not work, but there are many little light bulbs on that wire.

Hard to imagine, but it is the truth about success.

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.”

Isn’t there enough art in the world already? Why would I need to create yet more content? How can I stay motivated if there are thousands of people out there who make amazing art; who provide a bri…

I love how social media limits my creativity to a single square. It gets me to think hard about what makes an impact, how people can be helped without meaningless words, and what LOOKS good for people to click. Don’t worry, I’ll be adding articles here soon enough. I just need some space to focus on opening up a new, related avenue. With good response so far, I’ve been enjoying the process more than I thought, and now I’m sort of addicted.

Donald Hall, who died in June this year at the age of eighty-nine, compiled one final book of essays before his death.

Art is hard. It often looks easy from the outside. ‘I could have done that,’ says Jane. ‘But you didn’t,’ says Peter. That’s art. A true artist is not born. They are certainly not made overnight. Art is the result of a series of events that came together thanks to a commitment. A decision made by the artist or practitioner to show up every day, and to put something to paper. Many never make the art they are capable of. Many will never realise the music that is quietly humming in their souls. Sometimes, art erupts out of a rush of excitement and joy in the artist — from a moment of insight. That works.

Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos’ popularity and making the social media giant vulnerable to manipulation.