TL;DR: Get advice on freelance writing with The Freelance Writing 12-Course Bundle, on sale for $37.99 as of Dec. 22. Want to get into freelance writing but need a little push in the right direction? Check out this freelance writing guide from coach Laura Briggs. Over the course of a dozen workshops and 16 hours […]
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📝 This Week’s Goal: Find one way to update your writing space to reduce distraction and inspire creativity. In a year when most of us were confined to our homes, our writing environments might have changed quite a bit. Where coffee shops and coworking spaces may have once been bastions of inspiration, life is different […]
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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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The Business Of WritingLet’s beef up your template toolboxCredit: Mitul Shah via Burst Would you like to write articles that are good enough for big publications? Does putting together your next article require hours of time, mountains of willpower, and exchanging your first-born child for enough peace and quiet in the house to get it done? To make […]
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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 A few days ago, I was scrolling through my long list of incomplete, unpublished drafts.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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MEAN WHAT YOU SAYThe Language of Aspirations and ChallengesHas many facesPhoto by Juri Gianfrancesco on Unsplash Goals can be great. Parents, teachers, and mentors have made this case for centuries. And just as goals can be great, so too can challenges which test us and provide an opportunity for growth. How we express the value of goals and challenges […]
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Bookable “What if we started making certain things transparent so that we could maybe get to a new set of problems, because these ones are so old.” Photo courtesy of Bookable The United States is experiencing a time of reckoning, but too often it seems like we’re all talking past each another other rather than attempting meaningful […]
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50,000 words in 30 days might sound impossible, but we’re here to help you win 📝 November Goal: 50,000 words Every year, writers around the world attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in the 30-days of November. National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for you uninitiated, challenges people to sit down and write. NaNoWriMo can be a daunting […]
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Early Romantic writers assumed writer’s block was due to a power that prevented them from writingPhoto by Min An from Pexels. The first known victim of writer’s block is the English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote his most famous lines in his twenties. At the age of 32, he made the […]
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