As a nonprofit communicator, you might be responsible for managing your organization’s blog, newsletter or magazine. You might be juggling multiple relationships with authors and other types of contributors daily to deliver the written products you manage. When your editor-author relationships (as I will refer to them for simplicity) are working like well-oiled machines, your… Read More »
The first step in writing a donor or volunteer profile is conducting a solid interview armed with great questions. Ask everything, taking copious notes (you want to also record the conversation as a back-up and to ensure that you catch everything). Now, thanks to your stellar interview skills, you have pages and pages of interesting… Read More »
When it comes to writing an interesting volunteer or donor profile – a real human-interest story – for me, it’s all about the interview. I like to be prepared with as many questions as possible, both top-level and context-specific. Here are some of my favourite top-level questions for unearthing a good donor or volunteer story:… Read More »
One of the most valuable steps I build into timelines for any writing project is ‘walk away’ time. It is so important to me that I have time to walk away from a close-to-final draft. ‘Walk away’ time allows me to: Think about the copy while I do other things, allowing new ideas to arise.… Read More »
As a nonprofit communicator, you are most likely facing constant, large volumes of work. And if your role involves creating content, you have to be both creative and prolific under pressure. Which makes writer’s block very unwelcome indeed. But don’t we all suffer from writer’s block from time to time? For one reason or another,… Read More »
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