Breaking Writer’s Block
If you're a freelance writer, you've certainly sat down to write at some point and couldn't find the right words. Worse, you could have ended up staring at a blank page. Writer's block happens and it...
View ArticleThe Blogging Habit
Blogging is a powerful writing habit to develop. With time, repetition and regular practice you’ll find that: Your creative mind generates new material, day after day, week after week. New ideas for...
View ArticleComing Up with Fresh Content
One of the largest problems freelance writers might have is creating something new and exciting to generate interest. The Internet makes it easy to find all sorts of information within minutes with...
View ArticleHow Dreaming at Night Inspires Famous Writers
Some successful writers believe that dreaming at night is the heart and soul of good writing - while others can’t remember their dreams at all! Here’s a roundup of how dreams inspire some famous...
View Article3 Can’t-Fail Steps For Writing Without Intimidation
If you've ever held back from writing because at some level you're feeling intimidated, you're not alone. Thousands, if not millions of writers hear the same voice in their heads:
View Article10 Things to To Do When You Lose Your Blogging Voice
There are times when blogging seems easy. Natural. Maybe even like breathing. Other times though when it's hard. Awkward. Perhaps you feel like you've become a stranger on your own blog. Or that...
View ArticleChasing After Ideas With a Paper and Pen
Since my post on recording ideas (in which I practically stuffed a pen in your bags/briefcases/pockets), I decided to add something to my pen carrying habit. Instead of just being satisfied at having a...
View ArticleHow to Find the Time to Write
How to find the time to be a freelance writer is something many people ask, especially those who would like to develop a sideline career. If you'd like to be a writer, but you also have a full-time job...
View ArticleWriting In The Long Run
They say that completing a marathon is as much a psychological feat as it is one of physical strength and endurance. It’s obvious that a lot of training goes into preparing for a long distance run....
View ArticleFinding your writer’s voice
Some writers are lucky. That's what I've decided. From the very first keystrokes that they ever put to paper the words just flow and make sense. Others struggle and it seems like the words never take...
View ArticleWriting 911! 5 Tips to Breathe New Life into Your Writing
Whether you write as part of your profession, or as a hobby there may come a time when your writing feels flat and lifeless. You put the words on the page and they seem dead on arrival. You are all out...
View ArticleFinding writing inspiration
When I was in my early teens, I used to write fan letters to my favorite authors. In retrospect, I’m surprised at how many wrote back; some of them must have received hundreds of letters like mine on a...
View ArticleFreewriting – a Game Your Unconscious Likes to Play
Freewriting is a form of conscious writing that you do for a specific period of time. It’s not trance writing, you’re very aware of what you’re writing. It’s not presentational writing–it shouldn’t be...
View ArticlePowerful tools to help your writing
Just to give you a kind of fair warning, this is a little different take on the tools in your writer's toolbelt. Take what works for you, discard the rest. All I would ask is a thoughtful moment on...
View ArticleWrite like you’re dying
What causes a writer to write? is it the need to create? Maybe it's the need to put something out there that has been bottled up for too long and needs to breathe and gain a life of its own. Perhaps a...
View ArticleInspiration for Writers
Ahhhh, my fellow writers. We all need inspiration at one time or another. Some of us more so than others. I'd like to share with you some of my methods for collecting inspiration when I need it.
View Article5 Writing Topics I Don’t Blog About, and Why
I’ve been doing a bit of blog stock-taking recently, looking back at the things I write about, the posts I enjoy the most and also the writing that resonates the most with you. I also started thinking...
View ArticleGet Inspired – Watch People
Need to write but having writer’s block? Surprisingly, there are many ways to clear writer’s block but I am going to talk about the one and only way that truly helps to find ideas when writing.
View ArticlePeople Watching
I don't think you can really be a writer unless you are also an avid people watcher. I really like to sit with a coffee and watch the people around me. I don't write stories for them, I just observe...
View ArticleThink You Can’t Write? Grab a Crayon and Jot This Down
Remember the waxy, smelly goodness of Crayola crayons? Every time I inhale their aroma I hark back to my childhood in all its uninhibited creative glory. When I watch my own children put crayon to...
View ArticleHow Music Will Make You a Better Writer
Music is arguably the purest art form. It's a breathing of the soul, a perfect embodiment of emotion, a story without words. For the most part, we lowly writers can barely hope to tell as complete a...
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