Why Being A Writer Isn’t At All Difficult This morning, I watched the Remembrance Day Parade at the Cenotaph in London. There was an interview with a former soldier who was representing a charity for blinded war veterans. He’d personally been blinded in one of the recent wars – Iraq or Afghanistan – having been…
How To Get Off To A Flying Start In 2017 It’s almost the end of 2016 when I’m writing this. At the start of the year, I wanted 2016 to be the busiest year of my life. Has it been? Probably. However I know I can achieve a lot more in 2017, and I’d be…
Cautionary Tales For Creative Artists Today, I hopped on to Twitter and invaded a discussion about the music industry. One person was illustrating how little musicians make from streaming services and the like. Another person was saying that that’s part and parcel of the music business, and musicians make all of their money based on…
Five Freelance Writing Rates Mistakes That You Don’t Want To Make One of the biggest sources of traffic I get for this blog is searches that are involved with how much money you should charge as a freelance writer. Freelance writing rates are, to me at least, a straightforward thing. However, many people seem to…
Why You Need To Act On Your Ideas NOW There are countless people who are paralysed by one strange feeling: They have “so many ideas” that they can’t pick one and stick to it. They also don’t want to try anything that isn’t their “great idea” because they know that there’s a better idea…
How Good Do You Have To Be As A Professional Writer? Let me talk about the skills you need in order to be a successful writer in terms of your actual writing ability. The short answer: You don’t need many. The still-pretty-short answer: You do need some. Finally, the long answer: You need to…
Audience Quality: Hidden Key To Business There’s a huge metric that a lot of online writers don’t think about. That metric is glossed over by a lot of internet gurus, lifestyle gurus completely neglect to mention it (mostly because they don’t know about it) and those irritating entrepreneur forum case studies never mention them. That…
Branding Is A New Buzzword Every January, new buzzwords roll into the business and self-development worlds. Gurus across the world plunder those buzzwords for more social shares and the world spins as usual. “Branding” looks like it’s a buzzword now. Now, there’s nothing wrong with introducing concepts and otherwise giving people something to focus on….
Lessons Learned From Hand-Copying Some Of The Most Successful Ads Ever We’re over halfway through January 2017. It’s crazy how time flies. What’s also crazy is that I’m supposed to be halfway through the 30 Day Copywriting Challenge. For those of you who’ve stumbled across this blog post unaware of what that entails, go here….
Should You Wait To Publish Material Until It’s Perfect? Warning: Diatribe Incoming This article is ostensibly going to be about whether you should wait until something is perfect before you publish it. In reality, it’s going to be a Sunday-afternoon stream-of-consciousness set of thoughts on the idea. Really though, you all know my thoughts on…