Jan 17, 2023 | Nonfiction Writing |
If you expect to produce written material on a regular basis in the coming year, you need a plan. Writing coach Nina Amir explains it like this: “If you were… a marathon runner, you’d have a plan for how to run the race… how to overcome the...
Aug 23, 2022 | Getting Clients |
If I had to name one thing that causes more self-employed professionals to fail at marketing than any other, it would be lack of follow-up. Every day, I see solopreneurs and service business owners do a fabulous job at filling their marketing pipeline with prospective...
Jun 21, 2022 | Self-Employment Sanity |
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. I’ve noticed that we self-employed professionals indulge in this practice fairly often. For example, you have some potential business to discuss with...
Aug 16, 2021 | Self-Employment Sanity |
We self-employed professionals are graced with mixed blessings around getting stuff done. No one is looking over our shoulder making us do the things we know we should. Hooray, there’s no boss breathing down our necks! But also… Uh oh, that means...
Mar 19, 2021 | Nonfiction Writing |
Before she wrote her memoir Wild, Cheryl Strayed penned an advice column under the pseudonym “Sugar.” In answer to a letter from a self-described “writer who can’t write,” Cheryl replied, “Writing is hard for every last one of...
Nov 9, 2020 | Nonfiction Writing |
“I write every morning between 6-7 a.m.,” says Honorée Corder, the author of You Must Write a Book and Prosperity for Writers. “There’s an alarm to remind me at 5:58 a.m. (in case I need more coffee), and I set a second alarm for 7 a.m. I write...
