Blogging Can Be Hard. Here’s How to Make it Easier.
Blogging is hard! I've read it a thousand times and I know that consistency is key. But with family, kids, after-school activities, freelance writing gigs, trying to find more freelance gigs, and actual time to write the things I want to write, who has time!? Not me!...
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How to Create a Powerful Value Statement That Will Sell More Books
Entrepreneur's know what a value statement is. They're typically used to identify and express what value your company or product brings to consumers and the marketplace. Unfortunately, this very useful self-assessment tool goes unused by writers and artists who have...
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How To Sell Your Book (Without Feeling Like a Salesman)
Like many authors, I'm not a natural salesman. After a mildly traumatic stint as Cutco Knives salesman in highschool, I pretty much learned that I had no talent for convincing people they needed to buy what they didn't want. As I began preparing for the launch of my...
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10 Tricks to Get Your Writing Flowing
For writers, as well as athletes, there’s nothing like being in the zone. Distractions fall away, time disappears, and your work seems to write itself. Unfortunately for most writers, being in the zone is rare—instead of inspiration, we feel dread; instead of knowing,...
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How Spotify Can Make You a Better Writer
There’s a reason you listen to Metallica when you’re doing Crossfit. It’s the same reason you listen to raindrops when you’re doing yoga. It’s because music has a powerful influence on mood, so powerful it can actually elicit a physiological response. But as a...
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How LeBron James’ Chalk Toss Can Make You a Better Writer
As all athletes know, whether you’re getting ready for a basketball game or a short jog, you need to loosen up. But for elite athletes, just like writers, loosening up isn’t just about warming up the physical body; it’s also about preparing yourself mentally for what...
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How to Think Like a Great Writer
Attitude is everything. You’ve heard it a thousand times. You’ve probably even said it yourself. And yet, sometimes a bad attitude still gets the best of us. Sometimes we hate our writing. Sometimes we hate our agents. And sometimes, maybe, we even hate ourselves....
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How to Be a Better and Happier Writer
If you’re like me, you love writing. And…you hate it. Sometimes at the same time. We writers are full of contradictions when it comes to writing. We savor our alone time, yet we want to be loved by our peers. We want to create art, yet we want to be on the bestseller...
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How Ray Bradbury Found His Voice and How You Can Too
Like most of us, Ray Bradbury was a lover of stories. Dime novels, comic books, anything with words. But as he wrote in his classic memoir on the craft of writing, Zen in the Art of Writing, this love of stories made it hard for him to find his own writing voice: “I...
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Deliberate Practice for Writers
REVIEW: How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play (Writer's Digest Books 2010). Over the last couple months, my goal has been simple: to engage in what Geoff Colvin, author of the book Talent is Overrated, calls “deliberate practice.”...
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