As part of our continuing series, Write Right Wednesdays, The Omni Blogger presents this weeks tip from EnglishPlus.

Accept means “to receive.”

Except is usually a preposition meaning “but” or “leaving out.” However, except can also be a verb meaning “to leave out.”

As verbs, accept and except are nearly antonyms, so the difference is important!
Examples: He accepted the gift. (He received it.)He excepted the twins. (He did not include them.)

Everyone except Bill. (All but Bill.)

It’s amazing to see how much you can take in about blogging just in a single day. Today alone, I’ve read ___ great articles on blogging and I wanted to share them.

They come mostly from four different topics – design, blogging, writing and monetization.

All of these categories fit well inside my blog and I wanted to share some thoughts on each of these articles

5 Ways you are Unknowingly Harming Your Posts

If you have been blogging for a while, you should probably have a rough idea of what things you should and should not do while writing a blog post. But believe it or not, whether you know it or not, there are still quite a few things you have on your blog that are hurting it that you don’t realize.

Inside this post, I particularly liked the reference to dates. I still do dates, but after reading this – I’m reconsidering. Dates do give your blog a time stamp, which can be beneficial or detrimental, depending on your content.

5 Sure-Fire Sources for Headline Inspiration

Some days headlines are a breeze to write. The perfect words flow from brain to page in a flash of brilliance.

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It can be intimidating, frustrating, and a little bit humbling . . . and worst of all it can grind your projects to a halt.

It doesn’t have to be that way — as long as you have a few sources of headline inspiration at your disposal.

This is a great idea post that will help you get going when you’re stuck. In addition, a commentor suggested a poetry book. I would also suggest newspapers. Journalists have been getting people to read boring stuff for a long time.

10 Elements of Highly Effective Articles

Here’s the bottom line: If you want to keep a majority of your visitors then you have to be able to produce amazing articles.  Period.

There are a lot of people out there not producing amazing articles who still do fine. Regardless, it’s important to try, right? By the way, never use the word amazing. It’s empty and means nothing.

Make Money Blogging

Do you want to make money blogging? If you do – you’re not alone. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium. Whether it be to earn a few extra dollars a week to feed their coffee habit, or making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college, or whether they’ve got it to a point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging – there are tens of thousands of bloggers making money from blogging.

This is an old favorite from Problogger. I still look back at it every now and then to see what I’m not doing or what I’m doing wrong.

Success Keys For Young Entrepreneurs: Simplify Your Life

No summary here, but this article has a good list of overall traits you should have if you want to be a successful blogger.

I’m introducing this week a new series called Write Right Wednesdays. The idea is to offer a writing tip each Wednesday in the spirit of making us all better writers.

No one is perfect. I write my posts, read them, edit them, edit them again and come back three hours after I’ve posted only to find a spelling or grammatical error. I’m definitely not trying to preach to anyone, just help out.

I was a copywriter for broadcast and web publications at a local television station for two years. In that time, I’ve come to be good at some things and worse at others. Hopefully, this series will help me be better at a lot of things.

This week’s Tip

It’s important to know that there is a big difference between it’s and its. In fact, it’s so big that it’s this week’s Write Right Wednesdays tip.

The solution to this problem is pretty simple. It’s stands for it is and its is possessive.

In a sentence, just check to see if you can replace It’s for It is or It has. If you can, then you’re doing things the right way. Otherwise, you should probably try to see if its works.

For example, It’s important to spell correctly is translated as It is important to spell correctly. On the other hand, The pencil is infamous for its spelling errors.

Got it? Good. Now check to see if I made in mistakes and e-mail me if I did!

Regular blog readers know that some posts go on and on and on and on and on….. and on… and on. And then, they go on and on.

And pretty soon, it gets really boring or you just get lost altogether. That’s not a good thing, if you’re a blogger.

The folks over at Copyblogger, who I would consider the experts on blog writing, are generally agree that it’s important to keep your blog posts as short as possible.

Some writers don’t seem to know when to shut up. They ramble and pontificate and theorize, seemingly oblivious to the agony it’s causing everyone else.

To avoid this awful fate, you probably try to keep your posts short, chopping up longer ideas into a series of posts. No need to scare away readers by dumping too much information on them all at once, right?

If you know then, that it’s important to keep your posts relatively short – or at least, keep them shorter than War and Peace, the question becomes – how do you do it?

Again, we turn to Copyblogger for the answer. Here’s the list.

Write For Yourself

Edit For Your Readers

Stick to the Spine of Your Content

It’s all about Precision

Save the leftovers

For a long time in school, I was encouraged to write more. Then, I came to a Professor who wanted every paper to be less than one page long. The latter taught me a few things that I have stuck with me when it comes to articulating.

Write for a Knowledgeable Audience

Assume that the people you’re writing for know what they’re talking about. If they don’t know, chances are they are going to Wikipedia for the answer anyway.

Don’t Try to be Pretty

If you read the Copyblogger post, you got the point that plain is pretty when it comes to writing. If someone has to look up a word that a blogger uses, then it’s probably a sign that the writing is too extravagant.

Stick to the Limit

Newspaper writers and authors know that when an editor or publisher says X number of words, the editor or publisher means X number of words, not X words plus  a few.

If you have to, set yourself a limit and stick to it.