This month, my colleague, Carol Tice (@ticewrites), founder of the award-winning Make a Living Writing blog and Freelance Writers Den, offers a challenge to you: recession-proof your freelance writing business. Take her up on this challenge if you want to be a recession success story. Are you worried about how you’ll earn and retain clients in the recession that’s taken…
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The news always provides fodder for nonfiction writers. However, it also provides an opportunity to make a difference—to produce pieces that uplift, inspired, motivate, and provide hope. Today, Sam Bowman, a seasoned nonfiction digital writer, offers tips for writing encouraging pieces during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, you can put the same strategies to use at any time to offer a…
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Unless you are an essential worker, it’s highly likely you’ve spent most of your time at home for the last month, if not longer. The Covid-19 pandemic forced most people all over the world to shelter at home for at least a few weeks if not a few months. That means you have had more time to write. Right? Wrong….
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Given the highly competitive nature of the nonfiction writing industry, it’s easy to focus on what to write, so your work gets published rather than on what you really want to write. But that’s a surefire way to get off track. And when your writing career takes a detour, you lose passion for your work and end up frustrated and…
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If ever there were a time to use your nonfiction writing skills, it’s now. The world needs you, nonfiction writers! During times of crisis, like this Covid-19 pandemic, people rely on journalists, bloggers, and authors to provide news, analysis of information, tips, strategies, stories, inspiration, and hope. And you don’t have to be a professional writer or a previously published…
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