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Prospering in the Gig Economy: Simple Habits for Writers That Pay Off Quickly
Christina Katz has a quick list of tasks you can do on a regular basis to help yourself keep on task, allocate your resources effectively, and become more properous.
All about Sequels
How many times have you read the [...]
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Today I welcome professional writer Pamela Hilliard Owens. Pamela is sharing her advice on one of the hardest things about freelancing: making sure your work-at-home lifestyle actually includes a bit of work.
Working from Home? Well, Get to Work!
As I write this today, it has been snowing all night here in Michigan and there are several [...]
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I’m over at Incurable Disease of Writing discussing a few of my favorite things–for writing, at least.
Related Posts Writing Roundup, August 21 We’ve got a lot of interesting news posts this week in addition to the regular blog suspects. The Business of Writing The Limits of Control This article [...]
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In my informal poll on Twitter and Facebook, it became clear that health insurance is one of the main things that keeps we U.S.-based writers from being full-time writers. Seriously, I don’t know how families with children make it on one income until the writer’s income picks up.
For example, Nancy Brauer keeps a full-time job [...]
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Whew. This has been a week of technology troubles for me, but my laptop is on the mend. So, I’m back with some of the great writing posts from around the blogosphere. (It pains me to use such a cliched word, but I don’t know of any word to describe the internet or the blog [...]
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Perseverance
Without the ability to stick to our goals and complete our writing projects, all of the talent and study in the world won’t mean a thing. How do you keep your motivation up even when you are facing a seemingly endless string of rejections?
Two Roads Diverged: Understanding Traditional and [...]
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Thanks to Christina Katz for sharing her platform-building wisdom. I hope you get some good action steps from this guest post.
Platform Resolutions for Writers 2010
Before writers establish an author platform, they typically establish a writer platform. Over the past decade, thousands of writers have parlayed established influence into traditional book deals. Landing a traditional book [...]
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Top Authors Await Ebook Bonanza
The Times looks at how many British authors are waiting to sell their backlists on the long-awaited Apple tablet. (On a related note, I can’t imagine that the price tag of the tablet will lure in any but the earliest of adopters for the first [...]
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Fear is the mind killer.
–Frank Herbert
I’m taking an online course on writing short stories, and in this week’s call, one of the instructors offered this advice to one of my fellow students:
If you worry that your idea has already been done, you’ll never write a word.
That was the best thing I’ve heard in months.
I have [...]
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Is Your “But” Too Big?
No, that’s not misspelled, and it’s not a piece on the relative lack of exercise of the typical writer. Agent Nathan Bransford gives a motivating speech on pushing through your personal obstacles.
Amazon Offers Higher Royalty for Self-Published Ebooks
Publishers Weekly describes the new deal form Amazon.
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