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Reset Your New Year – 10 Must-Do Tips
With the new year coming, find out how to set your goals and actually fulfill them.
Should You Write for Your Audience or for Yourself?
While it’s always been said you should write for your audience, is it always true?
Writing Productivity: The $25,000 Question and Meditation
How do you accomplish all the writing and marketing tasks you must, aside from keeping up with everything else in your life? Ah, the $25,000 question.
Words Can Influence Your Writing Career
Tips on turning negative words and habits into habits that can nurture your writing career.
Want to Write For Anthologies?
If you are not familiar with writing for anthologies, this article will discuss the topic. An anthology is …
Hitch Your Wagon to a Star
Hitch your wagon to a star, a quote by Ralph Wald Emerson. What’s it mean?
Writing and the Imposter Syndrome
I watched an amazing Zoom webinar with Carolyn Howard-Johnson and her publisher Victor Volkman. It was from the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association Writing Conference – they did it virtually rather than in-person. Carolyn is an award-winning author and an expert book marketer, so I listen when she has something to share. A small…
Don’t Give Up – Seek Inspiration
Contributed by Linda Wilson All writers experience it: low times. A low time can rear its ugly head after a particularly painful rejection, a bad case of writer’s block, or in my current challenge, a serious case of lack of writing time. At times like these there is only one thing to do: Seek inspiration….
Talking Yourself Into Success or Out of It
I had a client who, after the book was almost complete, began to talk herself out of the project. Keep in mind this had nothing to do with money – the project was already paid for. The client simply began second-guessing herself. She wondered will there be a market for her story. She wondered if…