More than once I’ve been told to incorporate my business. .”Nah,” I’ve thought. “I’m small. I’ll remain a sole proprietorship.” However, when I consider the risks, I know I need to make that change…and fast. While attending BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, CA this past November, I met Nellie Akalp, the CEO of CorpNet, an online incorporation…
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Use Your Skills to Envision Your Perfect Writing Year
I employ one additional exercise each year to help me create a perfect writing year. I put this to use in addition to creating a vision map and writing goals and lists, as I discussed in previous posts. I put my writing skills to use to envision my year. Writing a vision can prove a fun writing exercise for writers…
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How to Use Goals and Lists to Manifest Your Writing Dreams
In my last post I discussed creating a vision board or map to help you achieve your writing (or personal) goals in 2012. However, some people don’t like visual or artsy exercises involving cutting and pasting. They prefer words and lists–something that feels more concrete and doesn’t involve visualizing or getting in touch with their emotions. If you are one…
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Create Your Writing Year with a Vision Board or Map
Happy New Year! Each year I spend time either on New Year’s Eve or on January first visualizing my year. In this way I “create” it. I firmly believe that by getting clear about what I want to create in the coming 12 months, focusing attention on it regularly and then taking inspired and purposeful action related to bringing my…
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Will You Take Inspired Action as a Writer in 2012?
I’ve been thinking all day about what to write in this last post of 2011. I could have offered you some sort of things-t0-do-t0-get-published list or a best-of post. I could have told you to hurry up and finish your to-do list. I decided not to do that. Instead, I thought about what I wanted to encourage you to do…
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Should You Add Bells and Whistles (like Apps) to Your Books?
I read this recent post by Seth Godin, and it got me thinking about all the different possible things we authors can now do with our content. Then I thought of an ebook recently published by Julien Smith, The Flinch. It’s free and there’s not much to it but great content. There’s so much great content to be written. So…
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A 4-Step Process for Making Your Writing Dreams Come True
I do a lot of things to help make my writing dreams come true. I write. I promote. I propose. I don’t give up. I don’t accept rejection as failure. I build platform. But there are some other things I do, too. These have little to do with writing per se. They have more to do with using my focus…
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Happy Holidays to All My Readers
Happy Holidays! Today’s post is a short one mainly to say thank you for being my blog readers. I’m so grateful every day to know that someone shows up here–well, more than just some one…lots of some ones–to read what I write. I compose these posts three times a week because I’m passionate about helping other aspiring nonfiction authors learn…
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