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7 Top Writing Tips for 2025

PRSay

In the spirit of manifesting a delightful and successful 2025, here are seven decisions to make for your writing practice this year: Favor HI (human intelligence) over AI. So use AI to help you get your writing job done. Ask it to write a dozen draft captions. Bring your own humanity to your writing. Pass the Palm Test.

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Writing For Journalism And Writing For PR: How They Differ

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

I was a journalism major, so most of my writing experience in college had a reporting angle. Whether it was through classes, writing for the school newspaper , or my personal blogs, my writing involved reporting facts, interviewing subjects, and taking down their quotes. What are you writing about? You report the facts.

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3 Ways to Write Better Leads: Make Them Concrete, Creative and Provocative

PRSay

If so, your Writing 101 class called and wants its lead back! To write leads that draw readers in and compel them to keep reading, make that essential first paragraph: Concrete Show instead of tell. The late Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, said, “If you told me to write a love song tonight, I have a little trouble.

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How to Start Freelance PR: A Comprehensive Guide

Remote PR Jobs

If you're venturing into more creative fields like freelance fashion PR, freelance music PR, or becoming a freelance PR writer this guide will help you launch your career confidently. Especially if you want to become a PR freelance writer showcase your content writing abilities, how you approach writing press releases.

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Wine, Innovation and Armani: A Journey of Creative Problem-Solving

PRSay

Creativity and innovation are often considered abstract concepts, at best, complementary to structured study programs. When, during my MBA at Bentley, I delved into design thinking, prototyping, hackathons, creative writing and lateral thinking, I thought it was all wonderful but that it wouldn’t have much impact on my everyday work.

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Writing Your First Book: Lessons from The Lean Startup

Deirdre Breakenridge

What is the hardest part about writing a book?”. Most writers I have come across tell me writing a book is both extremely rewarding and at the same time one of the biggest challenges they have ever taken on. The idea is simple, but powerful: Test your idea for a book before investing too much of your time actually writing the book.

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8 Writing Tips I’m Thankful for This Year

PRSay

That means that if you write at the 11th-grade reading level, then you’ll miss 97 percent of Americans. Most writers spend very little time getting ready to write, more time writing and the most time fixing what they’ve written. But comma-jockeying ain’t writing, and the result is some pretty tepid prose.

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