This may be hard for some to hear, but all blogs are not created equal. Yes, I know you think your story, your experience, and your POV is important, but how do your readers feel? When it comes to blogging, there are some tricks of the trade to ensure your blog doesn’t suck. Let me help you find your way when it comes to writing and maintaining your blog.

Family stories are a great way to capture the moments, relationships, characters, and quirks of a lineage; family stories are often memories of multiple family members that are compiled into an objective narrative that can be passed down for generations. The point of writing your family story is to remember an era as well as the intimacies that made your family unique and that made you who you are. Family stories often share the cultural, social, and political history of the time period in which they are written to fully set the scene. Like memoirs, family stories use narrative components like dialogue, setting, and description to tell a rich story for the audience: your family.

Graduation is an event marking both achievements and transition. For graduates and those who love them, graduation is an event of both potential and possibility and of reservation and anxiety. There’s the question of: what comes next? Even for graduates who know the college they will attend or the job they will walk into, there is still an element of uncertainty for what the future hold. A great graduation speech will embrace the positives of potential and possibility that comes with change and transition while also quelling the inevitable nerves that arise when one is moving forward into the great, wide unknown.

Gen Z, AKA the folks born between 1997 to 2012 (and up to 2015 because as we’ll learn from their grammatical predilections, members of Gen Z don’t do full stops) have followed the Millennial lead in reinventing accepted grammatical norms, which is fine…grammar is the system and structure of a language; it’s not stagnant—it’s living. It makes sense that with the technological revolution that there’d be substantial grammatical shifts. This grammar guide for Gen Z is designed to explain some of the most important modifications.

Writing an Airbnb listing probably seems like a simple-enough task, but you aren’t the only person putting their rental on the market. What sets your listing apart, and why should someone pick your rental over another? Learn how to write a stellar Airbnb listing in a few easy steps!

I’ve always felt like bloggers get a bad rap. There is this notion that bloggers aren’t “real” writers, but what does that even mean? Anyone who spends their time writing is a writer, but for some reason, published authors seem to be the only writers who are taken seriously. However, writing blog posts can ultimately lead you to that published title by helping you flesh out details and see what followers enjoy. Read on to learn about how to write a book by writing a blog.