How do you start a writing business? If you’re in the writing business or some other communications-type company right now, you know that the playing field has been leveled–about 30 times since last week. Veterans are having to start over. Newcomers are having to start and then re-start.
The good news: it’s not game over. It’s [...]
There is a tendency among non-writers to think that writing is easy. Furthermore, there is a perverse streak among the non-writing that seeks to educate writers.
If you write for businesses, you will be revised. Sometimes these revisions are whimsical and capricious. Sometimes they are mean-spirited and are accompanied by personal attacks on your intellect. [...]
Is your writing on life support? It happens to the best of us. It usually occurs when you’ve written too much, too fast. But don’t worry, you can get your writing and your writing career back into the pink quickly.
Here are 10 tips to get your writing back on track.
1. Take a day off, if [...]
I have a general policy to not in any way ever try to calculate, add up, estimate, or project how much money I’ve spent or will spend on my education. Right now, I’m learning all I can about Internet marketing, and it isn’t cheap. I previously wanted to learn about writing, and that wasnt cheap. [...]
Writers can be anything. We can be popular, rich, annoying, poor, intellectual, stupefyingly stupid, shocking, absurd, delightful, lazy, or workaholic. You name it, and there’s a writer who fits the bill. Can accountants say the same thing?
You can wear comfortable shoes and be a writer.
Eccentricities are annoying in people other than writers, artists, and the [...]
This is stock photography. I know this not because I purchased it or because it has that kind of generic posed quality to it, but because writers do not look like this.
I think a lot of people who want to be writers have this kind of image in their head. Writing is a sedate pastime, [...]
The best advice I have for new writers is to quit. Give up. It’s too hard. You need to know more than a lawyer, though you’ll rarely be paid as well, and never be treated with the same degree of respect (or is that fear and loathing? I always get those two mixed up).
Writing is [...]
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