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  • Freelancers – Are Your Moods Affecting Your Writing?
    We hear a lot of information today about how your mood can affect your life and your health in ways people did not think about before. One thing to remember is that a mood is a “temporary state of mind or feeling” and it can be good or bad. However, most of the time describing ...
  • Want to Be a More Successful Writer?: Meet Other Writers. Here’s How…
    Learning more about your craft, and the business of writing is easier when you network with other writers. After all, who will know best about how to do things, how to find information, and what to do regarding your writing career than other writers who are experienced? If you want to learn more about your ...
  • How to Improve Your Writing Process in 4 Steps
    One thing that will make your writing come easier is if you pay attention to your writing process. Instead of just sitting down and writing without any guidelines or idea of what you want to say, you’re going to want to set up your writing so that you can focus on one thing at a ...
  • How to: Sandwich Technique to Promote Your Book
    There are a lot of ways to promote your book but one of the most popular for not only book promotions but for giving people bad news, for handling critiques, and generally softening the blow about some news the sandwich technique is a winner. You know it’s a winner due to the sheer number of people ...
  • Should You Specialize Your Writing Business? – Tips for Freelancers
    Whenever anyone starts any type of business one thing that is drilled into their heads is niching down. Niche down your services, niche down your audience, niche down to serve a small portion of the entire audience so that you can specialize and make more money with less work. But, is it always a good ...
  • How To Write Quickly When You Are Overbooked – Tips for Freelancers
    Every now and then you may find yourself in a situation where you have no idea how you’ll get all the work done that you need to get done due to overbooking yourself. However, if you set up processes and systems, it will be more difficult to end up overbooked accidentally, and you’ll get done ...
  • Things To Consider When Drafting a Statement of Work – Tips for Freelance Writers
    An SOW is often referred to as a scope of work or statement of work. This is a document that can help you and your clients understand the scope of the work you are doing for them. It can help avoid any misunderstandings about what you will do for them. It is essentially a contract ...
  • How to Manage Effective Client Communication – Tips for Freelance Writers
    If you watch any TV shows or movies at all, what causes the most problems and drama on your favorite shows? It’s a lack of communication. If you’re afraid to speak up to clients (or anyone) about things it will be difficult to deliver to them what they want. As a freelance writer, your job ...
  • Expanding Your Subject and Improve Your Writing Skills: Creating Side Topics That Interest Your Readers
    Creating content in one niche is a good way to start with writing. You can write about one subject for a book, or a blog, or even as a ghost content writer. No matter what your subject is, you can expand on it in numerous ways so that you never run out of topics for ...
  • Creating a Space That Encourages Writing
    Writing is a brave career. It takes a lot for someone to strike out on their own and start creating pages upon pages of text for others to consume. And it can take a lot out of even the best of us. Creatively working takes a toll. With such a finicky career as ours, it’s ...