This article is based on excerpts from Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (Wiley, September 2014). The writer Andre Dubus (House of Sand and Fog) has described ...

If you are creating 500-word me-too blog posts that get read by no one, you are completely and absolutely wasting your time. It's not your fault. You've been told by so-called experts for years that ...