Category Archives: Writer Issues Solved
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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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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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Feel Like a Fake?
Posted on January 2, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips, Writing, Writing TopicsA 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 TipsI 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 TopicsEver 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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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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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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Is Your Well, Well Empty?
Posted on July 15, 2011 by brandiwplogin in For Entrepreneurs, Writer Issues Solved, Writer Tips{flickr} What did you do today? And the day before? How much of your time was spent working? How much time did you spend on simply enjoying your life? These questions are not merely questions of curiosity, but self-preservation. In The Right to Write by Julia Cameron talks about the “well.” A fitting word to [...]
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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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