Category Archives: Scroll & Quill Consulting

Writing to persuade readers to act is not pure logic. Sometimes this raises suspicions. What are those manipulative writers up to? Why not just make the case and be done without all that emotional rhetoric and red type? (I’m just … Continue reading →

OK, as much as I was impressed with how Jandy used the wordpress template, I’m even more impressed now when I realized I didn’t have time to figure it out.  Instead I sat down at my keyboard with the free … Continue reading →

If you read the literature in books or on the net, you know that people claim there are all sorts of tricks to sales writing. But a recent visit to Branson, MO on the part of some friends of mine … Continue reading →

I was reading a book on business by one of the more famous freelance writers (while the book was on starting a writing business, the section could apply to any small business start up). The author was giving guidance for … Continue reading →

I haven’t written about writing lately, so I direct your attention to this blog post, with which I interacted.  The occasion of the post was that Robert Bly saw a recommendation that, unless your customer complains, you are not charging … Continue reading →

(That is mainly because I have no client who pays me to do so.) But I just want to express my wistfulness that St. Louis is not more like Dallas in some ways.  Mainly, when someone posts this sort of … Continue reading →

Websites for writers with low self-esteem.