Over the years, there’s been a lot of debate about whether or not goal setting works. However, I’m a firm believer in using goals to help me achieve the success I desire. So have some of the people I admire and whose advice I follow, such as Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield and Michael Hyatt. I’ve successfully used goals with my…
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For those of you who dream of making a living as a professional writer, today’s guest blog post is for you. Daisy McCarty, author of Make Freelancing REALLY Pay: Communication and Negotiation Strategies That Take You to the Top, and co-founder of Freelance Text, offers some really sound advice on how to use your nonfiction writing skills to freelance for…
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As a nonfiction writer, you have a unique opportunity to do more than just tell a great tale. You can impact readers in a truly significant way. You can provide content that changes lives, communities, organizations or the world. That doesn’t mean you can’t tell stories; many nonfiction writers tell phenomenal stories based on their own experiences or on facts….
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This post marks the first in a new feature for this blog: short writing prompts to help you achieve your goals as a nonfiction writer. They will appear each Friday. I encourage you to complete them and to share your work in the comments section of the post, and to comment on the work others post. This will create a…
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Continuing the December theme of planning for your future success as a nonfiction writer, today I’d like to delve into the large topic of branding. Most writers don’t think about branding. If they do, they wait until they become authors. Branding represents an essential element of how you market yourself as a nonfiction writer, and, as such, it should be…
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