Category Archives: Writer Challenges
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Take That Negative Feedback
Posted on January 31, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Writer Challenges, Writer Issues Solved, Writer TipsOne 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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Fiction Anxiety – Help!
Posted on January 19, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Fiction, Writer Challenges, WritingI’m venturing into an unfamiliar territory. Fiction. Ack! Talk about anxiety. Fellow fiction writers I welcome your input on this one. Anyway, I let my husband read passages from it every once in awhile. And while I wait, I try to appear calm, but I’m really scrutinizing every eye movement, every shift in his position. [...]
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Who Do You Surround Yourself With?
Posted on January 17, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writers, Writer Challenges, Writing TopicsWhen I first started my career as a full-time freelance writer, I didn’t know what I was doing. I made a ton of mistakes. I still do. But in looking back, I realized I neglected one thing. Myself. I’ve been reading Julia Cameron’s classic book The Artist’s Way. It’s taught me how the decisions we [...]
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Overcoming Self-Doubt in the Writing Process
Posted on January 5, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Expert Series, Freelance Writing, Writer Challenges, Writer Issues SolvedThis post came at a perfect time! After just spilling my guts about how I sometimes fake it as a writer, I received the post below from author and editor Sarah Nagel who I’ve been following on Twitter. It gives practical advice to overcome the self-doubt that writers and all creatives face. I’m so grateful [...]
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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 TipsEver 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 TipsEver 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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Getting the Monkey Off Your Back
Posted on November 1, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writers, Writer ChallengesSometimes when I’m creating, I feel a heaviness upon me. There’s a gorilla of a being sitting on my shoulders weighing me and my creativity down. Know him? He’s the guy that: says your writing isn’t good enough takes a kernel of negativity and rolls into a wave of self-defeating thoughts tells you you’ll never [...]
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Writing in the Dark
Posted on October 25, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writers, Writer Challenges, Writer Issues SolvedIt’s almost Halloween, but I’m not talking literal here. {Though I must admit the visual of a glow-in-the-dark pen, a notebook and a flashlight sound pretty cool to me.} What I’m talking about is what happens when you write with your mind half-conscious, semi-aware. Even as a full-time writer and someone who writes every day, [...]
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Tame That Ego
Posted on June 25, 2011 by brandiwplogin in For Entrepreneurs, Writer Challenges{photo} When you’re working with someone else, there will come a time when you’ll wonder why the heck you ever decided to work for yourself in the first place. I’ve heard it from fellow entrepreneurs who’s ego got beaten by constant criticisms and demands placed on them by unsatisfied customers. I’ve went through it myself. [...]
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5 Social Media and Common Author Mistakes You Might Be Making
Posted on June 8, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Expert Series, For Entrepreneurs, Writer Challenges, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips{photo by} You’ve worked really hard on writing that book, conceiving a new idea or blogging, but you still haven’t seen results with your efforts. Literary agent Kevin Small who I interviewed in part I of this post, sets us straight this time with the unintentional mistakes you could be making that’s sabotaging your career. [...]
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