To Get More Clients, Get R.E.A.L.

One of the ways I help self-employed professionals and creatives build their businesses is with writing — blog or Substack posts, byline articles, ebooks, and more. To explain to them the type of editorial content self-employed pros need to write in order to...

When Is It Okay to Write Badly?

“Darn it, it’s my writing day, and I didn’t sleep well last night. Now I’ll be tired, and my thinking won’t be sharp. Maybe I should just forget about writing today. I don’t want to take the chance the writing won’t be any...

Muscle Memory to the Writer’s Rescue

As a self-employed professional or creative, it’s likely that some sort of writing is frequently on your to-do list. But we all have days when getting started on a writing project seems impossible. It can happen when you’re tired or stressed. Or when your...

The Mysterious Affair of the Prolific Writer

Dame Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time. Her detective novels featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have sold more than two billion copies. That’s right, billion with a B. She wrote 66 mystery novels, 6 romance novels, 14 short...

Three Good Paragraphs Can Make Your Day

Sometimes our expectations of ourselves as writers (whether we write to build business, express ourselves, or as a way to make a living) are way too high. It’s good to hold aspirations to be a highly-skilled, prolific writer. But what’s not good is when we...

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