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5 Practical Tips to Take the Suck Out of Writing

Image via Canva Like any job, writing has its logistical and psychological challenges. These don’t have to ruin your experience, though. These are just a handful of tips that can make completing a draft all...
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5 Tips to Make Writing A Book a Million Times Easier

Business photo created by wirestock – www.freepik.com Some brilliant people on the planet, so I have heard, are capable of writing a book with the same ease as sipping a latte. I am not one...
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What’s In Your Punctuation? A Lot, Apparently

Part of basic elementary school training is learning the basics of punctuation: A comma does this, a period does that. Over time, we get better at using those basics consistently. That helps ensure writing is...
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How to Deal with Other People Finding Writing Success

Abstract vector created by macrovector – www.freepik.com You know those success-based social media posts. The exuberant ones. The ones where people announce they’ve just found an agent, met some ridiculous word count goal, or had...
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How to Tell the Difference Between Content Mills and Legitimate Writing Sites

Want to be an article writer? You'll need to figure out which platform(s) to publish or find clients with. Within this, it’s critical to be able to spot the difference between content mills and legitimate...
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Investment Mindset: 4 Rules to Be a More Successful Writer

Money vector created by stories – www.freepik.com If you’re like most writers, you’ve probably heard that, if you really want to be successful, then you have to write a ton of content. The story is...
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Are You a Bad Writer? Here’s the Truth

Food photo created by valeria_aksakova – www.freepik.com In my usual browse of article headlines on Feedly this morning, I stumbled across this gem from Hannah Giorgis in The Atlantic. Giorgis declared that much of what’s on Netflix...
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Should You Work As a Ghostwriter?

Most writers dream of people knowing their byline. But thousands of writers are flying under the radar as ghostwriters. Let’s explore what it means to be a ghostwriter so you can decide whether it’s right...
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Paper or Digital: Which Is Better for Writing?

Background photo created by freepik – www.freepik.com You’ve heard the stories. People like Abraham Lincoln, J.K. Rowling, Aaron Sorkin, even Marilyn Monroe–all are said to have scrawled ideas on whatever they could, including paper napkins....
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How to “Show Don’t Tell” in Writing

Paint photo created by freepik – www.freepik.com If writing advice had a Top 10 Hits list, “show, don’t tell” likely would rank #1 pretty dang easily. We’ve heard it a million times. We know we...