Merick Vaughn @ Medium

The Writer’s Round-up

The writer’s round-up is a weekly column that provides reflection, advice, and articles relevant to the skills I want to develop as a writer: reading, writing, blogging, and marketing.

Blog
The Writer’s Round-Up 9

This week:

  • Emotional journey: the key to a memorable story.

  • Make writing automatic for writing (especially blogging) success.

  • Differentiate yourself by addressing your audience’s hidden desires.

The Writer’s Round-Up 8

This week:

  • Use market research to increase your story’s marketability

  • Using real-time data to make your articles more appealing

  • The appropriate uses of free and paid content in a writing and marketing strategy.

The Writer’s Round-Up 7

This week:

  • How will you know your work is worth promoting?

  • Tips to streamline your editing.

  • Vanity metrics vs. meaningful metrics in marketing.

Writing

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A Writer's Retrospective: March 2022
writing, progress, update, retrospective
A Writer's Retrospective: March 2022
writing, progress, update, retrospective

What good is writing that doesn’t interest the writer?

writing, progress, update, retrospective
A Writer's Retrospective: February 2022
writing, progress, update, retrospective
A Writer's Retrospective: February 2022
writing, progress, update, retrospective

Incremental progress in word and thought—but to what end?

writing, progress, update, retrospective
A Writer's Retrospective: January 2022
writing, progress, update, retrospective
A Writer's Retrospective: January 2022
writing, progress, update, retrospective

Practicing my brevity here. Again.

writing, progress, update, retrospective

Blogging & Marketing

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A Writer’s Journal - 2021.02.02
writing, progress, update, column, blogging
A Writer’s Journal - 2021.02.02
writing, progress, update, column, blogging

This week:

  • Did I find the perfect book to read? Why/why not?

  • Feedback on “Knightly Virtues” from my critique partner.

  • Playing the social media game.

writing, progress, update, column, blogging
Why I Didn’t Want to Start a Blog
writing, personal development, blogging, meta
Why I Didn’t Want to Start a Blog
writing, personal development, blogging, meta

I wanted to be a content creator for years, but I spent more time making excuses than brainstorming ideas for content. Here’s how I got over it.

writing, personal development, blogging, meta

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