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What makes a good PhD thesis? 7 clever aspects to perfect!

Andy Stapleton · 3 min read

A strong PhD thesis isn’t just about having good research—it’s about making examiners feel confident that the work is both genuinely new and...

PhD Thesis WritingThesis IntroductionNovelty and Contributions

Aggressive Self Editing: How To Become Happy with Every Word You Write with Jerry Jenkins

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Aggressive self-editing is framed as the fastest route to writing that agents and acquisitions editors can trust—because it tightens style and...

Self EditingPassive VoiceReadability

How to Write an Executive Summary—What Should be Included?

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Executive summaries should function less like compressed paperwork and more like a one-page, reader-specific story that pushes the reader toward a...

Executive Summary WritingReader-Centric CommunicationTL;DR Culture

The 5 Essentials of a Scene, with Story Grid Certified Editors Anne Hawley and Rachelle Ramirez

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

A working scene isn’t defined by where characters are or how long the chapter feels—it’s defined by a specific chain of cause-and-effect. Scene craft...

Scene EssentialsCrisis ChoiceTurning Point

How to Use ProWritingAid to Improve the Clarity + Effectiveness of Your Writing with Hayley Milliman

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Clarity is the non-negotiable engine of effective writing: if readers can’t quickly understand what’s on the page, they spend their attention...

Clarity PrinciplesPassive VoiceGlue Words

An Interview with Bestselling Fantasy Author, TJ Klune

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

TJ Klune’s path to bestseller status traces back to two early forces: a childhood habit of writing and the life-changing confidence boost from...

Bestselling FantasyQueer RepresentationCharacter Voice

Self-Editing School: How to Self-Edit Your Novel to Improve Readability with JoEllen Nordstrom

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Self-editing for fiction gets a practical makeover: writers are urged to evaluate their manuscripts at the story-structure level first—plot,...

Self-EditingStory ArcScene Openings

7 Essential Elements Every Author Website Needs with Nick Stephenson from Your First 10k Readers

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

A successful author website isn’t primarily a branding exercise—it’s a conversion machine built to grow an email list and turn that owned audience...

Author WebsiteEmail List GrowthReader Magnets

Hemingway vs Grammarly: Which Writing Tool is Best for You?

ProWritingAid · 2 min read

Hemingway and Grammarly target different pain points in writing: Hemingway is built to make prose clearer and easier to read, while Grammarly leans...

Hemingway ToolGrammarly ToolReadability Grading

5 Simple Principles for Creating Clarity in Your Writing - with Professor, AJ Ogilvie.

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Clarity in writing comes down to how easily readers can build a “movie” in their heads—images of who did what, and how each sentence logically...

Clarity PrinciplesSubject VerbLogic Links

Memoir-Writing and Healing: How to Write Your Memoirs with Janelle Hardy

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Memoir writing often stalls not because of a lack of ideas, but because resistance—overwhelm, procrastination, perfectionism, and self-doubt—shows up...

Memoir WritingNervous SystemTrauma-Informed Healing

Fictionary Walk-Through, with Founder Kristina Stanley

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Fictionary’s founder Kristina Stanley walked through how the platform turns a manuscript into a scene-by-scene editing dashboard—then uses AI-derived...

Fictionary Walk-ThroughStory EditingScene Hooks

Self Editing School: How to Perform a Sentence-Level Copy Edit Effectively with JoEllen Nordström

ProWritingAid · 2 min read

Sentence-level copy editing is the last line of defense before a manuscript is formatted, uploaded, and shared—and it’s where small grammar,...

Sentence-Level Copy EditingEditing LevelsSelf-Editing Workflow

Turning Your Cover Letter into a Compelling Story with A.J. Ogilvie, PhD and Founder, Chris Banks

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

A cover letter works best when it’s treated like a story that connects a candidate’s values and experiences to what a specific organization actually...

Cover Letter StorytellingCompany ResearchReader-Centric Writing

The Five Principles of Creating Clarity

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Clarity is the central job of storytelling: if readers can’t quickly understand what’s happening, they stop engaging and start decoding. The core...

Clarity in WritingSentence-Level ClarityPassive Voice

Self-Editing School: How to Navigate the Four Stages of Editing with JoEllen Nordstrom

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Editing isn’t one pass—it’s a sequence of distinct “levels,” and getting the order right is what lets writers improve their work without getting...

Four Stages of EditingStructural EditingLine Editing

Academic Writing and Publishing for Graduate Students and Junior Scholars, with Lindy Ledohowski

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Academic publishing is framed as a knowledge-production pipeline: research becomes publishable only after it’s shaped into a peer-reviewed article or...

Academic PublishingResearch Paper StructureLiterature Review

5 Ways to Use ProWritingAid to Improve Your Essay, with Hayley Milliman

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Clarity beats vocabulary flexing in essays: stuffing writing with “fantasy vocabulary” and convoluted sentence structures tends to bury the thesis,...

Essay ClarityGlue WordsVague Language

Self-Editing School: 10 Things an Editor Looks for in a Structural Edit with JoEllen Nordstrom

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Structural editing is the high-level work of making sure a manuscript is a complete, coherent story—before grammar, line-level style, or punctuation...

Structural EditingStory ArcScene Planning

Self-Editing School: How to Self-Edit Faster and More Efficiently with JoEllen Nordstrom

ProWritingAid · 3 min read

Self-editing gets faster and more effective when writers stop treating revision as a straight line and instead audit every chapter and scene against...

Self-EditingStory ArcPOV Consistency