Crafting blog posts that inform, entertain, and engage – hopefully, all three at the same time – can be a challenge under the best of circumstances. When you are bombarded with negatives from every direction, it’s hard to craft words that offer a glimmer of encouragement. Whether you are a new blogger or an experienced…
Building freelance success takes investment. You have to take purposeful action. You have to make choices. You have to do what needs to be done. And you have to be willing to find your way. There is no magic bean or an easy button. You get to your freelance success one little bit a time….
Building your writing success requires a plan. If you want your writing to be a business then you have to treat your writing like a business. “What’s the most important thing about building a freelance career?” That question gets asked at all conferences where freelancing is addressed. The best answer ever given is as simple…
You uncover the unique you when you find ways to push past the stuff of the world. The more you are willing to dream beyond the world limits, the more you will regress back to a place where you have the heart of a child. The heart of the child provides the secret to the…
Write a book in a month. It’ll be fun. They say it every year and every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world jump into the fun. Today marks the halfway point for National Novel Writing Month. If you have been hitting the mark every day then you are halfway through your novel….
Building writing success requires more than a passion for writing. Creating a business as a writer means you have to approach your words with a professional slant, and a business focused on niche marketing and production. As a writer, you may can write anything. As a professional writer, you stand out when you focus on…
Unless you create a time budget you will find that time manages to slip away. Once time gets lost or spent, time is gone forever. You can’t create more time. You can’t borrow more time. When time is gone, it is lost to all possibilities. Money gets made. Space gets created. Time can only be…
Building a full-time writing career can be a scary step. Even if you have created the perfect business plan, stepping into a writing or any freelance profession can cause you to pause for a moment and take a deep breath and wonder if it’s the best route to take. Even on the better days, freelancing…
The commercial sounded great in the beginning. They challenged people to write down the one thing they would love to do if they could only get someone to pay them to do it. We believe in people pursuing their passion and that finding that passion will keep a person from ever working a day in…
I went to get the car washed. It was on my to-do list. I can wash the car, and I have taught the kids how to wash the car. At this point, it had been neglected enough that I needed to let a professional take over – it also got me out of the house….
