How to write almost anything from a great joke to a killer cover letter.  This is a short read but packed with a lot of information in a sequence of articles to read all tidy in one place.

https://getpocket.com/collections/how-to-write-almost-anything-from-a-great-joke-to-a-killer-cover-letter

There’s an old saying attributed to legendary sports journalist Red Smith: “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” The technology may have changed since the 1940s; the painful parts, unfortunately, haven’t. But that’s no reason for despair. Whether you’re just looking to punch up your tweets or have ambitions to write the Great American Novel, we’ve got you covered with this collection of great articles about the craft of writing, well, just about anything.