If you’re in the writing biz, it goes without saying that you have a relationship with words. I love words, and I love talking; it’s often more fun than writing. As a natural born storyteller I can tell an engaging story, but, inevitably, I end up taking you to a couple of different places in [...]
As every freelance writer will tell you, setting financial goals is crucial. If we’re going to make a real living at writing, we’ve got to see the money flow in steadily. I set my goals for the first few months of this year, and will be watching as I ponder the need for a supplemental [...]
Sometimes we overshoot the mark, or underestimate our time and/or ability. I set a grandiose goal last year of reading 100 books! Ha! It was spurred on by excitement after reading a blog of another woman with that goal-only at the time I didn’t realize she was a writer of young adult fiction and was [...]
Every business has it’s own little tools and tricks for keeping us on track and working effectively. My greatest need is to get organized. I’m not sure where or how I lost my organizational mojo, but I did. I get the job done but I’m usually working right up until the exact deadline-I mean like [...]
I want to be like The Transporter when it comes to client negotiations. Jason Statham is The Transporter, an action guy who transports ‘things’ for people. In the original movie, the first of three, he is transporting a woman…and it gets complicated. I admit to watching the occasional action movie, especially if one of my [...]
Being self-employed requires a certain degree of self-promotion for success. The old “if I build it will they come” only works if everyone knows the address. In reality, many of us have challenges with self-promotion, and I suspect the difficulty for me has much to do with my upbringing and being a woman of a [...]
I love this video, as much for the visuals as the way that Bruce challenges us to look at the way we speak in this day and age. In this very cool piece of typography, he explores the lack of authority and conviction today. “I implore, entreat, challenge you to speak with conviction.” A good [...]
You can look at the phenomenon which is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, in many ways. Over 100,000 people from all across the globe are writing a novel. At a suggested pace of 1667 words a day, we will cross the finish line at midnight on November 30 with… 50,000 words and the makings of [...]
I decided at the first of the year to try and read 100 books this year, I even publicly announced it and set up a page with my list of books. Well, realistically that ain’t happening. I’m nowhere near 100 books, actually I’ll be luck to read 50 books by the end of the year. [...]
Late Sunday night I joined the NaNoWriMo- National Novel Writing Month. That means I have pledged to write 50,000 words in the month of November! I’m joined by hundreds of thousands around the country and over 300 in my region of the state. But, you’re writing a memoir, you say? Well, yes.. but there is [...]
