Category: Inspiration & Creativity
The Biggest Mistake Writers Make? 5 Tips for Writing More, Writing Better
The biggest mistake writers make isn’t ignoring the rules for good writing! These five tips for writing more and writing better are about cultivating a laser beam-like focus. As a writer, the biggest mistake I make is multitasking. I careen wildly from Twitter to writing blog posts to researching my latest health article to packing up [...]
Healthy Writers Are Happy Writers! 5 Fitness Tips for Writers
Physically and emotionally healthy writers are happy writers (creative, productive, and resilient). These five fitness tips for writers range from the unusual to the simple — and all but one are tested by moi. I can’t stress it enough: the healthier and happier you are as a writer, the easier it’ll be to flow with the ups [...]
5 Ways to be a More Confident Writer, Blogger, or Freelancer
I’m a full-time freelance writer and blogger who needs these ways to be more a confident writer more than anyone! My husband and I just bought an expensive house in Vancouver (like, over a million buckaroos, my friends). You know how unstable a freelance writing career is – especially if you’re a writer like me, who chooses to earn the [...]
How to Write Productively — 5 Tips for Finding Your Own System
What are your writing goals – finish the novel, pitch more magazines, contact the best literary agent on Twitter? Knowing how to write productively will help! Here, freelance writer Thursday Bram shares five tips for finding your own system. ”A word is not the same with one writer as with another,” said Charles Péguy, the French editor, [...]
How to Find Your Blogging Voice – 8 Tips for Bloggers
Knowing how to find your blogging voice – who you are as a blogger – is the first step to loving your blog! These tips for bloggers will help you answer these types of questions: What kind of blogger are you? Do you advise and instruct, or are you sharing your journey? These tips for finding [...]
Getting Your Children’s Book Published – 4 Ways to Increase Creativity and Motivation
As a children’s book writer, you can and will get published – but you must stay the course! These ways to increase your creativity and motivation will give you the edge over thousands of writers also trying to get published…they’re from Sue Douglass Fliess, who refused to give up until she found a publisher for her children’s picture books. “If you are at [...]
Motivation for Writers – Fire Up (or Just Fire) the Writing Muse
Finding the motivation to write is a constant struggle, even for writers who earn a living from writing! What roadblocks do you face? Fear, doubt, uncertainty, lack of time, rejection sensitivity, perfectionism, procrastination, self-criticism, impatience? You’re not alone, my friend. “Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark [...]
7 Reasons Writers Are Fools if They Don’t Tell Stories
Don’t be a foolish writer! Here, a publication coach describes the reasons writers need to tell stories, and explains why story-telling is “the most important job for writers.” “Telling stories – and telling them well – is probably the single most important job facing any writer,” says the Publication Coach, Daphne Gray-Grant. “And guess what? Stories [...]
Writing and the Law of Attraction – 8 Steps to Getting Published Via Visualization
Can visualization and vision boards help writers get published? Yes, say the authors of The Smart Cookies’ Guide to…Getting Out of Debt. They credit the success of their two books to the law of attraction and their vision boards. Here, writer Viccy Adams describes eight specific steps to visualizing writing goals and getting published… But first, a word from one of [...]
How to Write Your Life Story – 5 Tips for Telling Your Story
It’s time to learn how to write your life story! These writing tips will show you how and where to start telling the story of your life. “Writing your memoir can be one of the best things you could ever do for yourself,” says literature professor Allan Hunter, author of Write Your Memoir: The Soul Work of [...]
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