Why You Should Try Writing Fiction The majority of my writing is non-fiction. However, I enjoy writing fiction and there are numerous reasons to write fiction even if you don’t intend to make it your livelihood. Some are economic reasons, some are psychological reasons and some are knowledge-based reasons. I’ll talk you through some of…
The One Thing You Need To Have Before You Start A Freelance Writing Project Freelance writing is fun and it’s relatively easy to make money in a short period of time without a lot of effort on your part. However, it’s still a job which requires working with clients and delivering something to a client’s…
Don’t Confuse Inanity With Originality Yesterday I wrote about how to write original articles for your blog. I hit publish, and then almost as soon as I’d switched off my computer I thought of a caveat that I’d forgotten to include which I really should have. That’s what I’ll be talking about in today’s post….
What Are The Most Useful “Other-Skills” A Writer Can Have? I had a conversation the other day with some writers about what other skills they could pick up that would be useful for their writing. Now, a huge amount of people seem to think that writers should have design skills or coding skills. I don’t…
Voice Concerns In the last article I wrote, I talked about having a test run for every new project. Something I talked about was developing a new voice for each niche. There are two issues I’m going to talk about today: Your voice. Who you are as a writer and what that entails. Your fake…
One Crucial Thing You Need To Think About Before You Try To Sell ANYTHING Online Look at that title – either painful or enticing. This is probably going to be a short article, but it’s crucial that you read it if you have a goal of trying to sell anything online. Let me preface the…
There’s Nothing Wrong With Remembering The Beginning A mistake I see a lot of people make when it comes to sales, business or other online stuff (and I’ve made it myself,) is that we all have a tendency to forget the amateur mistakes we all make. This leads to us pretending we’re all eternal experts…
(This is a stream-of-thought post to keep the streak alive. Apologies in advance!) I had a horrendous morning. I had a previously difficult client on my case. However, I got that work completed ahead of schedule. What didn’t work out so great is that a project I’ve been working on (for myself) for a couple…
NLP is like Sales For Weirdos A lot of people in copywriting, sales and business say that you should learn about NLP. NLP, or neuro-linguistic programming, is the art of causing mental change (or something) and it’s a necessary skill so you can read people’s minds and make them change according to your will. Obviously,…
Today’s been an interesting day. I’m waiting for tech support to get back to me on one project, so I’ve meandered. I set up some document templates so that I’m ready to write. Then I browsed Fiverr for a few ideas I had plus a logo designer. (More on these things once I’ve done the…