If you have to write articles, reports or blog posts, you may find this article useful:

The Professional Writer: The Stages Of Writing An Article

It describes the, er, stages of writing articles that I and many other people work through. I’ve also included some useful links to online word counting and readability tools (I’ve included the latter in the probably forlorn hope that someone in the Department for Education will see it and take note). Plus websites for free (I mean actually free) images. And some good search engines that aren’t Google.

Here’s that link again:

The Professional Writer: The Stages Of Writing An Article