# Everybody Writes: Your Go-to Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/everybody-writes-your-go-to-guide-to-creating-ridiculously-good-content/
- Published: 2018-03-08T23:32:21+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Experienced marketer Ann Handley wrote this book because she couldn’t find what
she wanted – part writing guide, part handbook on the rules of good sportsmanship
in content marketing, and all-around reliable desk companion for anyone creating
or directing content on behalf of brands.**

The book consists of six parts:

 * How to Write Better
 * Writing Rules
 * Story Rules
 * Publishing Rules
 * Things Marketers Write
 * Content Tools

Everybody Writes is a go-to guide to attracting and retaining customers through 
stellar online communication, because in our content-driven world, every one of 
us is, in fact, a writer. If you have a web site, you are a publisher. If you are
on social media, you are in marketing. And that means that we are all relying on
our words to carry our marketing messages. We are all writers.

Yeah, but who cares about writing anymore? In a time-challenged world dominated 
by short and snappy, by click-bait headlines and Twitter streams and Instagram feeds
and gifs and video and Snapchat and YOLO and LOL and #tbt… does the idea of focusing
on writing seem pedantic and ordinary?

Actually, writing matters more now, not less. Our online words are our currency;
they tell our customers who we are. Our writing can make us look smart or it can
make us look stupid. It can make us seem fun, or warm, or competent, or trustworthy.

But it can also make us seem humdrum or discombobulated or flat-out boring. That
means you’ve got to choose words well, and write with economy and the style and 
honest empathy for your customers. And it means you put a new value on an often-
overlooked skill in content marketing: how to write, and how to tell a true story
really, really well.