Category Archives: Writer Tips

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  “If I Knew Then…”: Top Tips for Writers

  Posted on May 15, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writers, Writer Tips, Writing Topics

  I just read Careerbuilder’s article, ‘If I knew then what I know now’: Advice for college graduates and found myself nodding my head in agreement. I wish I had, for example, thought long-term about my career, realized my passion sooner and pursued it with the kind of ambition and energy only someone in their twenties has. [...]

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  Don’t Give Up Yet

  Posted on April 25, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writers, Writer Challenges, Writer Tips

  I have a lot of writer friends who started out all gung ho and then let their mojo slide when the going got tough. My ego would like to say it’s the way we weed out the true writers from the pack. But I know the truth. The truth is that writing is scary. We [...]

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  Help This Writer Out!

  Posted on April 16, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writers, Freelance Writing, Writer Challenges, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Resources, Writer Tips

  Fellow writer Daylin Van Zandt sent me a message over Facebook today that inspired me. He decided to quit his full-time job to fulfill a dream. I’m so excited for him! One of his dreams is to start a community magazine. While he has the networks and the know-how to get started, he wanted some tips, advice, [...]

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  Take That Negative Feedback

  Posted on January 31, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Writer Challenges, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips

  One of my favorite blogs Young House Love wrote an honest and helpful post on Dealing With Criticism the other day. While I’m one of their long time loyal fans, I found this last one so inspiring simply because of how applicable their post was to not just blogging, or even writing, but life itself. [...]

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  Feel Like a Fake?

  Posted on January 2, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips, Writing, Writing Topics

  A lot of writers I’ve talked to and read about say that no matter how much they’ve written, published, or even obtained awards for, they still feel like a fake. And I’m one of them. I sometimes wonder what it would take for me to feel validated as in the words of one writer friend, “a [...]

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  Always a Work-in-Progress

  Posted on December 13, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips

  I went to Arizona for a little over a week. And while I still believe that trip was life-changing, I returned also feeling extremely disappointed. As if a weight I had been hoping to release off my shoulders became even heavier. Not only did I fail to work on my work-in-progress, but I came back [...]

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  You’re Thinking Too Much!

  Posted on December 6, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips, Writing Topics

  Ever notice on the days you hem and haw over an article, your head suffers and your writing suffers too? And the pieces you don’t sweat to pieces are your best ones? Weird how that works isn’t it? I find it amazing that the weather is less consistent than this extraordinary fact. I could spend [...]

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  Find the Motivation You Need to Keep Writing

  Posted on December 1, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer Tips

  It’s the end of National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for those in the know. And I have to tip my hat to you all. Writing a novel in a month scares me more than public speaking. Just the thought of it brings back an old episode of Golden Girls. You remember the one where Blanche [...]

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  What’s Going On Outside of This Blog

  Posted on November 17, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Guest Blogs, Holidays, Writer Challenges, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Resources, Writer Tips

  Ever feel blogged out? Or that your world is filled with headlines and blog ideas? I sometimes get so zoomed into social media that when I zoom out to real life,  my head spins. (Not the exorcist kind, the vertigo kind) So to take us all beyond this blog, I’m doing a short post to [...]

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  P is for Paralyzing or Productivity?

  Posted on November 8, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer Challenges, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips

  Ever write with a surge of energy like a torrential downpour bringing sustenance to a dry desert? Tip tap tip tap. A never-ending stream of consciousness. It’s flow at its best. Have you ever experienced the opposite? You write so tentatively so self-consciously almost like a new nurse with a needle afraid of the potential [...]

  
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