You’ve been sitting at your desk for 15 minutes staring at the screen. So far, you haven’t written a word. Even when your mind happens to throw you ideas, they don’t seem worth pursuing. So you continue to sit there, frustrated because you just don’t know what to write. Have you been there and done that? Pretty annoying, right, especially…
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How to Take Control of Your Writing Career
Writers often embark on their writing journeys with great clarity about the direction they want to sail. Feeling like the captains of their writing ships, they know what topics they want to cover and the types of writing they want to do. Later, that clarity may wane, though, and their ships may drift off course. Losing your writing career direction…
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How to Increase Your Writing Consistency, Productivity, and Performance
You’ve heard the stories about the most productive and prolific writers. They sit down at their desk on a schedule—five or seven days per week at the same time. Then they knock out a predictable number of pages or words every single time. No excuses. No procrastination. No distraction. To succeed as a writer, you, too, have to write consistently…
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Do Old-School Grammar Rules Apply to Modern Day Writing?
I’m a sticker for old-school grammar rules, but times change, and so have the rules I write by. In today’s post, Beth Bauer (@JourneyofBethB), discusses several grammar rules that have changed over the years. Have you ever sat down to read a new book, and, just a few pages in, you notice the writing seems grammatically incorrect? Many old-school grammar…
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How to Understand Your Ebook Distribution Options
Your ebook is ready for publication, but you still have one important decision to make. How will you get it in readers’ hands. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) discusses three strategies for ebook distribution. Earlier this year, we published a summary of the benefits and advantages of only publishing an ebook. If you’ve decided that publishing an ebook is the right…
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How to Develop a Writing Habit Fast!
You may call yourself a writer, but are you really a writer? Writers have the habit of writing. Do you write consistently every day or week? Writers write. Be honest. Are you a writer? Or do you like to call yourself a writer when, in fact, you write sometimes…rarely…sporadically…when you feel like it…or hardly ever? How to Become a…
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The Definitive Answer to the Question of Why Writers Don’t Write
You say you are a writer, yet you don’t write. You know writers write, and you want to write (or so you say), but you rarely, if ever, produce written words. Why don’t you put fingers on the keyboard and knock out some powerful writing? That’s the million-dollar question for many, many writers. So, what’s the answer? It would be…
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