And my brief experiment with this process.
There’s this guy who used to be a dentist, but now he’s a marketing copywriter. His weekly newsletter for other marketing writers offers some good tips for, I think, just about any kind of writer.
A couple of months ago, this former dentist — Kieran Drew is his name — wrote about how copywork can help writers get better at the craft.
“Copywork,” he writes, “is where you copy, by hand, great writing.”
Continue reading “Thoughts on copywork”‘We are a doom-scrolling alternative. A mixed bag of mixed metaphors where … the only common denominator is quality.’
As I and my fellow Missourians emerge from the vicious grip of a polar vortex from the north, where heartier types deal with these sub-zero temperatures and wind chills more frequently (and where thermometer readings are even lower, thanks to the Celsius scale), it seems fitting that today’s Friday Five highlights the work of a writer from north of the U.S. border, Brandon Nadeau, and the phenomenal literary magazine he launched last fall, MoonLit Getaway.
Brandon is a veteran of the Canadian Army (twice deployed to Afghanistan) originally from northern British Columbia, where he “snowboarded, played guitar in a metal band, and got bad grades in school.” He now lives, writes, and edits in Edmonton, Alberta. He serves as executive editor and fiction editor for MoonLit Getaway, which publishes fiction (including flash), poetry, and visual artwork every two weeks. He and his editorial team also publish book reviews and interviews with featured authors and artists on the website’s blog.
Continue reading “Friday Five: Q&A with MoonLit Getaway founder and editor Brandon Nadeau”
Andy writes! 