If You Want To Be A Writer, Do A Little A Day I write lots of words. On this site I’ve often talked about how you should really write thousands of words a day if you like writing. I stand by that statement, but today’s topic is going to be about something entirely different. When…
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. A big mistake that a lot of people make is thinking that they have to reinvent the wheel. I’ve certainly fallen into this trap, and probably will do again. I could be talking about writing, but I could also be talking about business or all manner of other…
5 Writing Tools That EVERYBODY Has Already. (Plus One Writing Tool That Everyone Overlooks) Today, I’ve been writing headlines. Before you ask, yes, I did use these guides to writing headlines from last month: How To Write Search Engine Optimised Headlines Five FREE Resources That Will Help You With Writing Headlines These Headline Writing Tricks…
“Editing In” Versus “Editing Out” I hated editing until I discovered the concept of “editing in,” probably (honestly, definitely) limiting the value of my words and making me come across as a worse writer (and thinker) than I actually was. Why did I hate editing? Because I foolishly believed what the teachers at my old…
Keep The Chain Alive I don’t really have all that much time tonight; I unexpectedly got called away on errands and didn’t get back until late. A few years ago, I discovered a habit-forming tool called chain-building (or something similar. It was on a long forgotten blog.) The idea is simple in principle; you keep…
Writing Templates When you work for a penny a word, you learn to do things quickly. In fact, you’ll scramble around trying to find as many ways to make things happen as quickly as possible. Writing templates are like gold for this reason. I’ve talked about building your own swipe file before. I’ve talked about…
Writing A Sales Letter Every Day Here’s a little side-project I came up with the other night. In addition to having the busiest year yet, I’m going to try and sky-rocket my sales letter writing skills. Contrary to popular opinion, I’ve never believed that writing has to be long, slow and torturous to produce good…
Think As Though You Were Hiring Someone Else If you thrive in a bit (or a lot) of creative chaos, then this is going to be a great solution for you. If you can’t keep track of everything and you sort of do your work as it comes and to no particuar schedule, then this…
When You Get A Bad Product The other day, I found an e-book on my computer that I hadn’t read. It’s from quite a big name in the make money onine crowd. I looked and saw that he was offering a hefty affiliate fee. So I read the book and sat down to write a…
One Project At A Time As I wrote about yesterday, there are gaps in the market pretty much everywhere. This can be frustrating because when you see the gaps, you naturally want to act on them. I have a list of projects that gets longer as time goes on, and I can’t complete the projects…