Writing, Copywriting, & Marketing Strategies
Ever hesitate when you’re about to hit publish on your latest blog post?
You’re sure you should give it one more read through.
Maybe you’ve missed a typo. Maybe you’ve misquoted someone. The wording in that third paragraph still doesn’t seem quite right.
Here’s what you need to do. Stop overthinking and just hit publish. [Read more…]
Does it ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything that you want to accomplish?
You’d love to blog more, but you just don’t have the time?
Or you’d love to write a novel, but right now you’re just too busy with other things?
“I’m too busy” is one of the most common excuses used for not pursuing one’s dreams, but as Henry David Thoreau once wryly observed, “It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
In today’s post, I’m looking at five different ways we can carve out time for writing even when it seems there are no more hours left in our schedules. [Read more…]
Want to supercharge your writing productivity but feel like you struggle to concentrate when you sit down to write?
It can be hard for us writers to find time to write in the first place, but when we finally do manage to carve out those precious hours, it is very frustrating when we can’t stay focused on our writing.
Enter Anthony Trollope.
One of the most successful novelists of the Victorian era, Trollope figured out a daily writing routine that had him churning out books with astounding speed. Over the course of 35 years, he wrote 47 novels as well as many short stories, nonfiction books, and plays.
Even more impressive, he did all this while working a demanding job as a post office inspector. His job required him to travel often and keep a busy schedule.
That meant that when he sat down to write, he needed to make sure he met his daily word count goal.
So how did he do it? Read on to discover Trollope’s unique strategy. [Read more…]
Have you ever looked at the bibliographies of prolific writers and wondered how on earth they write so many books?
Do they just have an incredible amount of time to devote to writing?
A motor inside their hands that keeps them typing away?
A writing refuge where they can hide to block out all distractions from the world?
Actually, the answer is much simpler.
These prolific writers usually don’t lead unconventional lives nor do they possess any superhuman powers. Rather they have developed a single habit that anyone can master: setting a daily word count goal and following through every day.
Read on to discover the daily word counts of several prolific authors (some of these may surprise you!), and the best way to set your own daily word count goal. [Read more…]
Has this ever happened to you?
You sit down at your computer to begin writing, but instead you find yourself having a stare down with the blank screen.
You may type a few lines, but after several minutes you delete everything. You just can’t seem to find the right words to continue.
It’s as if your inspiration inkwell has suddenly dried up.
If you are suffering from writer’s block (or have suffered in the past), you are not alone!
Even famous writers have struggled with creative blocks at some point in their careers. Thankfully, many of these writers have also shared their methods for how they overcame these dry periods and became successful writers.
Read on for the different strategies five famous authors have used to overcome writer’s block and keep typing away. [Read more…]
It was 1922, and a 23-year-old Ernest Hemingway had just experienced one of the most devastating blows to his writing career.
A blow so devastating that he did not think he could ever write fiction again.
In fact, he seriously considered giving up on his dreams of becoming a famous novelist.
But eventually something within him drove him back to his typewriter.
He kept writing.
Four years later, he had completed The Sun Also Rises, and over thirty years later, he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Are there obstacles, interruptions, and distractions threatening to sabotage your writing goals in the New Year? Here’s what Hemingway can teach us about remaining dedicated to our craft even when life seems set on undermining our plans. [Read more…]
Have you ever started writing a story or a blog post and felt like it wasn’t turning out the way you had envisioned it in your head?
The words aren’t flowing quite the way you would like. Yet, you spent so much time working on it, that you decide to hit publish.
And your audience loves it.
In fact, they love it even more than anything else you have written. They demand more of the same.
What are you to do? Is your writing really as bad as you think?
Something similar happened to Arthur Conan Doyle. [Read more…]