UX Planet
UX Content Audit: Step by Step Guide
10 min · · Brief: copy affects user experience as much as design does. Here is how I make sure content does not spoil user experience · Shared by 8
medium.com
Sarah Park, Slack
4 min · · Hi! My name is Sarah Park and I’m a senior product writer at Slack in San Francisco. I’m currently working on revamping our onboarding…
Jon Winokur
Finish Your First Draft
1 min · · The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. "Finish your first draft and then we'll talk," he said. It took me a… · Shared by 58, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz, Neil Hart 💙
UX Movement
When Cancel Buttons Should Not Say "Cancel"
5 min · · Cancel buttons sometimes have different names. "Not Now" and "Maybe Later" are some dismissive labels one could use. But there's one case when the Cancel button absolutely should not... · Shared by 11
mkaz.blog
Notes on Technical Writing
3 min · · Over the past year, I’ve worked on and off documentation for WordPress. I started contributing during a freeze around launch to help developers transition to the new platform. I found writing… · Shared by 38, including hardmaru, sircharlsxavier
masterclass.com
How to Write Three Act Structure
· Novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters have many options for organizing the structure of their novels, plays, movies, and television episodes. Traditionally, these narratives are broken into acts, which are subdivisions of the overall story. Some stories are told in a single act, like short stories and one-act plays. Sometimes a storyline demands many acts; Willam Shakespeare, for instance, was loyal to the five-act structure when writing his plays.
Yet of all the ways to subdivide a story, writers have shown great loyalty to the three act structure, which is typical of most forms of modern storytelling. The notion of three-act storytelling traces back to Aristotle, who theorized on story beats in Poetics. He argued that stories are a chain of cause-and-effect actions, with each action inspiring subsequent actions until a story reaches its end.
masterclass.com
How and Why to Use a Pseudonym: 4 Reasons Authors Use Pen Names
· For centuries, the use of pseudonyms has been implemented in writing by various notable authors wanting to conceal their true identities. Writers use pseudonyms for a variety of reasons, and many successful, classic writers are more widely known by their pen names than their real ones.
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🎏Glitch
Introducing Glimmer (Call for Submissions)
2 min · · In early 2020, Glitch is launching a new publication, Glimmer. You're seeing the logo for the first time here, and we can’t wait to show you the site when it launches. In the meantime, we're… · Shared by 15, including masto.ashfurrow.com/@ashfurrow, anildash.com, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social
servicescape.com
660 Science Fiction Writing Prompts That Will Get You Writing at Warp Speed
· Science Fiction has been recently referred to as the last great literature of ideas. It contains imaginative concepts such as parallel universes, fictional worlds full of advanced technology, time…
SitePoint
How to Create Unforgettable Interface Copy
9 min · · A well designed interface needs an equally elegant voice. Jerry talks about the elements that make for great interface copy.
DigitalOcean
How to Use Git to Manage Your Writing Project
8 min · · In this tutorial you’ll use Git to manage a small Markdown document. You’ll store an initial version, commit it, make changes, view the difference between those changes, and review the previous… · Shared by 8