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Your outlines are useless. You need a fat outline. - without bullshit

Your outlines are useless. You need a fat outline. - without bullshit | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
When you’re planning to write, but before you’re actually writing, you create an outline. Unfortunately, most outlines are worthless. You need a better outline: a fat outline.

Outlines are helpful for mapping out the structure of a long piece of writing — anything more than 1,000 words (a couple of pages). An outline ought to help the people you’re working with — your boss, your clients, your editor — to understand what you’re going to write. It should also force you, the writer, to think clearly about content.

The problem is, traditional outlines don’t do this very well.
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Josh Bernoff says fat is good – that is when you're writing an outline and intending to share it with editors, your boss or others.

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Find Content Creation Ideas: 7 Sources for a Virtually Endless Supply

Find Content Creation Ideas: 7 Sources for a Virtually Endless Supply | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Use these 7 strategies to come up with a virtually endless supply of fresh ideas for content creation. Several of them involve simply tapping into the power of some websites you are probably already using...

 

Content marketing poses many different challenges to businesses of all sizes, one being producing enough content. In fact, according to a Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs study, 64 percent of small businesses and 53 percent of enterprise businesses note that producing enough content is a content marketing challenge they currently face. Often businesses aren’t able to produce “enough” content because they believe they simply do not have any new ideas for their content marketing projects.

 

Though content creation can seem daunting, there are many easy ways to make the content marketing process easier. Not only are a variety of tools available to help inspire fresh concepts, but there are also some hassle-free methods that businesses in any industry can take advantage of — simply by tapping into the power of some of the websites you are probably already using every day....

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Nice 'n easy tips for content inspiration.

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How to Be a Writer: Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring Authors

How to Be a Writer: Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring Authors | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

"As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."Ernest Hemingway has contributed a great deal to the collected advice of great writers, from his famous admonition against the dangers of ego to his short and stellar Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But some of his finest wisdom springs to life in this excerpt from his 1967 nonfiction piece By-Line, found in the altogether excellent Hemingway on Writing (public library) — a compilation of the celebrated author’s most insightful meditations on the craft, culled from his published works and his private letters. ...

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The always-inspiring Maria Popova shares inspiration on writing by Ernest Hemingway.

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How you can make great content in PR - Inside PR - PRmoment

How you can make great content in PR - Inside PR - PRmoment | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Attention! Here is an invaluable guide for creating content that gets noticed. So if you want to engage, enthral and entice, read on...

 

Tom Barton, UK head of communications at IT business and consulting services company Capgemini, says a question he is asked nearly every day is “Can you help us produce great content?”. His number one rule is to think about your audience. “Picture a person reading your writing and ask yourself who they are and what they want to know. It is unlikely they are going to be too dissimilar to you, so try to make it personal. Making it great is making sure it is useful to your reader. And for it to be useful, it must be clear and provide something practical to take away, whether food for thought, or a tip which can be implemented easily. It should also be unique – don’t write something that’s too similar to content found easily elsewhere.” To make sure your content is king, follow this expert guide....

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A collection of experts offer great PR writing tips worth reading. 

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