Authentic Expressions

Authentic Expressions

It’s Not Too Late to WIP It, WIP It Good!

At any given moment, do you know what’s in your WIP? Works-in-progress (WIP) represents your overall pending workload. For content marketing managers, it’s the running list of pieces in various stages of completion. With the right strategy in place to manage this process, all your confections can taste like perfection, provided you don’t get lost […]

Unicorns and Rainbows: Taking Consistent Writing from Fiction to Fact

What is consistency and why does it matter? While every industry has its own answers, across-the-board reliability makes success possible. In the world of content creation, whether it takes the form of blogs, emails, infographics, webpages, or ad copy, effective messaging consistently: While the last bullet paraphrasing Margaret Mead may sound idealistic, it’s actually the […]

Places of Our Own: Version A’s Writing Spaces

Some writers need the routine of retreating to an office every time they work, while others feel inspired by changing locations. Whether it’s piled high with books or neat as a pin, every writer’s workspace is an extension of their creative selves. Video calls give a curated glimpse into our lives: a picture framed on […]

3 Reasons You Need a Creative Brief – and 5 Things to Include

When I first started freelancing, I never asked for creative briefs. Instead, I might spend a few minutes on the phone with the client discussing the topic. On many occasions, I didn’t even do that. The client sent me a working title and that was enough to get me started. Somehow it worked. I spent […]

Suffering from Version Control Chaos? 5 Tips for Better Version Control

At first glance, version control seems like it should be an easy task. A document is circulated, people share their comments and edits, and revisions are made. Sounds simple enough, right? Not always. In fact, version control is one of those tricky things where suddenly you find yourself wondering: And the more people there are […]

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