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Over the course of the writing and research of Write Now!: The Guide to Making it in Freelance Writing, I spent considerable time thinking about life as a writer: the successes, the hardships, the odd hours, and the opportunities I've been afforded. But nothing occupied my brain more than what it takes to be a writer. Then, …
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Good afternoon, Write Now fans -- First off, my content has dwindled. I know this is true, but it was for a good reason. I loved getting blogs up, but I had a more important job to which to attend: Finishing and marketing my new book, Write Now!: The Guide to Making it in Freelance Writing, which …
Lists are all around us. We compile shopping lists, Christmas lists, lists of ten great life hacks, and lists of the 6,198 times we laughed in 2018. It's easy journalistic fodder, just as it is a nice way to stay organized at the grocery store. Warren Buffett said to make a list of the 20 …
For the most part, I'm going to use this space for writing, but sometimes I'm going to just write because, well, that's what writers do. Maybe some of the things I'll write about will interest you. Maybe some of them won't. In either case, I hope you'll still read them. What I'll try to do …
Good morning #WriteNow community! We're in the midst of the holiday season. One of my favorite days of the year is the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It's our day to bring the Christmas decorations upstairs, hang the lights and the stockings, and put on the famous Christmas playlist (don't judge! It's been carefully-curated for a few …
One of the great ironies of living in 2018 is that we celebrate a day of gratitude and thankfulness on the day immediately preceding the biggest shopping day of the year. In one moment we're grateful for all we have: our families, our friends, and our good fortune that we can all be together; In …
I just finished reading Ayodeji Awosike's article entitled "The Difference Between Good and Bad Writers" on Medium (Side note: Medium is a great platform on which to publish and to read great content). It's a wonderful read if you have five or six minutes, which -- coincidentally -- we all have especially because we can access Medium on …
For Christmas last year, my wife bought me a book that I flew through in the few days post-holiday. I made it my goal in 2018 to read a book every library cycle (three weeks). 17 books was a nice goal. It'd be more books than I usually read per year. Despite my love for reading, …
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I just read an article titled, “Why Going Off the Grid is Great for the Creative Process” and I have to admit this: I hated it. I didn’t hate it because it was poorly written. In fact, it was very well-written. It was succinct, to the point; I didn’t hate it because it was untrue. …
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