📝 This Week’s Goal: Embrace your inner geekiness and enjoy your writing.Source: NBC; Edited by the author. Did you know there’s a holiday for everything? Today happens to be Embrace Your Geekiness Day, which I happen to love. We all have a bit of geek in us, whether we’re willing to admit it or not. I love the […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Find music that inspires but doesn’t distract.Photo by John Matychuk on Unsplash, Edited by the author. I had an administration day recently. You know, a day spent catching up on emails and connecting with clients. It’s not my favorite thing to do but a necessary part of any freelancer’s workflow. As my […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Consider launching a newsletter to better connect with your audiencePhoto by Mathyas Kurmann on Unsplash; Edited by the author Today’s newsletter is a bit meta since we’re talking about, well, newsletters. I write and send out two newsletters a week, This Week In Writing and Eat Your Words. Each one is a joy […]
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Write NowHow a mother helped her daughter to become a published author by age sevenPhoto courtesy of Rowena Roberts Editor’s note: This is the second mother-daughter pair featured in Write Now. The first, Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao, explored writing a memoir together. Rowena and her daughter seven-year-old daughter, Maddie, developed a creativity-journal for kids. […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Cut out distractions and develop a writing streak. It’s no mistaking my love of Jerry Seinfeld. One of the first stories I published on Medium, From Seinfeld to Snapchat, was picked up by Backchannel and then acquired by Wired. Seinfeld’s career is marked with tremendous success and provides incredible insight into a […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Get to know your writerly self. Hi there my literary loves! On this version of Earth people know me as Emily Wilcox (or The Girl Obsessed with Biscuits™) but you will soon know me as Mrs Robert Pattinson, I can assure you. And what I am is what I think we all […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Celebrate your year in writing. 2020 might not have been the year we all expected. As we prepare for the ball to drop and usher in 2021, it’s worth taking a quick look back to the year that was. In January, our Facebook Group kicked off the year with the Embrace Your Weird […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Give your writing an SEO makeover. How much time do you spend on Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, when writing? Last week’s Submission Rules and Style Guide update include some general SEO guidelines. These repeat Medium’s title and subtitle guidelines and encourage internal and external links throughout your story. When it comes to […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Let your favorite writers know you’re grateful for them. It’s Thanksgiving week here in the United States. While 2020 is not the year we all envisioned, there is still a lot to be grateful for. Namely, we’re grateful for each of you. We’re grateful you trust us for support and encouragement. We’re also […]
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How an idea goes from being abstract to concretePhoto by Darius Krause from Pexels Ever had an idea you couldn’t stop thinking about? I’ve had many; this happens to be one of them. A few days ago, I was scrolling through my long list of incomplete, unpublished drafts. That’s when my eyes rested on an idea I had […]
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