Your reader will stop reading your essay, article, or book if your sentences don’t flow. These tips are basic skills for good writing; they’ll reduce choppiness and increase your chances of hooking your reader ‘til the very end!
Before the tips, a quip:
“Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence,” says author Barbara Tuchman. [...]

My sample chapters are due to a publisher in one week; these tips for writing for publication are my final attempt to make those chapters as lively, concrete, and strong as possible! These writing tips focus on the craft of writing (not the mechanics, such as grammar, spelling, or sentence construction).
Before the tips, a quip:
“The [...]

You want to increase your blog readership, right? These eight tips for promoting your blog are unusual and effective! The more readers you have, the more you’ll enjoy blogging and writing…and the more money you’ll make as a blogger.
If ProBlogger Darren Rowse was starting out in blogging right now, he said he’d use these five strategies together [...]

Successful writers have to connect with readers ”in person” (as well as in print) if they want to create and maintain an upwards momentum. I discovered some popular published authors – such as Jodi Picoult - are open to actually connecting with readers – and others are completely inaccessible. Guess which ones will be popular longer?
Learning how to connect with readers [...]

These tips will make your articles, pitches, and writing in general more memorable…and the more memorable you are, the more likely you’ll succeed as a freelance writer.
“Tell the readers a story!” says novelist Anne McCaffrey. “Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.”
Using anecdotes and [...]

These writing and editorial tips are from a senior editor I write for regularly – and they include some of the most frequent errors she sees in article submissions. Pay attention, fellow scribes, because even when you think you’ve got writing down to a fine art, there’s always more to learn!
“It is perfectly okay to [...]

These ”chick lit writing tips” will improve the writing skills of any writer in any genre. The tips are from a book about writing chick lit, which I was reluctant to read (I thought it’d be too floofy for successful writers). But, the authors of this chick lit book — See Jane Write — discuss the serious side [...]

In this guest post, novelist William Meikle offers tips on writing leads (“killer opening lines”) – and keeping your readers hooked.
But first, I have to share a quip from Annie Dillard on how to be a successful writer:
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, [...]

These ways to write effective leads or introductions that hook readers are from a variety of editors, writers, and creative gurus. I’ve also included several examples of their writing tips in action.
First, some good news from a professional writer:
“Editors need freelancers,” writes Thomas Williams in Get Paid to Write: The No-Nonsense Guide to Freelance Writing. “They depend on them. [...]

These 12 fiction writing tips from authors and editors range from “put your characters in therapy” to “embrace your writer’s procrastination.” I rounded up the best advice on writing fiction from a range of successful writers, including journalism professors, novelists, and screenplay writers. 
Before the tips, a writing quip from Anais Nin: 
“I believe one writes because one has to create [...]