Right around a year ago now, I made my first cent online. It was literally a cent .01 and it showed up in my Google AdSense account after a certain number of people had viewed an ad for dog food or a shiatsu massager or whatever on my old humor blog. That first cent [...]

If I asked you to define what an A-list blogger actually is, what would you say? I'm sure the usual thoughts like thousands of subscribers, lots of comments, and large influence come to mind. While these may be things that many of us agree on, they aren't really about the blogger, they're about the blog. Yet it's the [...]

We tell you about the power of stories quite a bit. And now we're able to see what happens in our brains when we encounter a compelling story. But how do you learn to tell these types of stories? Often, just by studying great ones. Take 37 seconds to read this one: ______ The soul of the city is [...]

Raise your hand if you're a writer. Now, raise your hand if you have a nice-sized ego. And now, raise your hand if you lied on that last one and kept your hand down. The thing is, writing and a big ego kind of go hand in hand. And if you haven't quit, gone crazy, or offed yourself [...]

William Shakespeare is the shorthand we use when we want to describe a great writer. He stands for the pinnacle of writing ability. One reason is that he mastered the art of writing for completely different audiences. He appealed to the ultra elite, to regular theater-goers who never missed a performance, and to the illiterate mobs [...]