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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 TipsFellow 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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What You’re Holding On to Could Be Holding Back Your Writing
Posted on March 6, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer ChallengesThe Pain in My Neck I went to the chiropractor for the first time in a decade today. I’ve been having a literal pain in my neck and shoulders and wanted to find the culprit. Although the results were inconclusive, the chiropractor did tell me something intriguing. He said my posture was messed up. Okay [...]
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How an Art School Student Became a Freelance Writer
Posted on February 21, 2012 by brandiwplogin in Freelance WritingThis may be late breaking news for those who already read this, but I L-O-V-E stories about how writers became writers. When writer and blogger Charyn Pfeuffer tweeted me from @charynpfeuffer and later emailed me about her personal journey to freelance writing, I was smitten. I asked if she would let me share her story with you here. [...]
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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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Find the Motivation You Need to Keep Writing
Posted on December 1, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Freelance Writing, Writer TipsIt’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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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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The One Thing You Should Be Doing as a Freelance Writer
Posted on October 10, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Dreams, Freelance Writers, Freelance WritingWhen I wrote this list of easy ways I increased my chance to freelance writing success, I neglected something BIG. In fact, it was the number one thing that helped launch my career. And the fastest. Just this past March, I wrote about how I was on the fence about this one. Looking back, I’m [...]
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