Category Archives: Freelance Writing
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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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*What a Feeling!
Posted on October 4, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Blogging, Copywriting, Freelance Writing, Writer TipsMediums That Move Me Last night I was bawling harder than I had been in a long time. Like a traffic accident, I was both glued to the TV screen and fighting to turn away. Indecisive about what I should do next, I finally decided to whip out my nifty remote control and put a [...]
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Easy Ways to Increase Your Chances of Freelance Success
Posted on September 27, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Business of Freelance Writing, Freelance Writers, Freelance Writing, Writer TipsWhile I’m hardly one to call myself a success (unlike this couple), I have picked up a few learn-as-you-go tips that have seriously change my career and my life. To be honest, my freelancing career started without any preparation, focus or long-term planning. I basically decided one day that it was time to stop waiting [...]
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The Unromantic Truth About Freelancing: What Really Fuels You
Posted on September 21, 2011 by brandiwplogin in Business of Freelance Writing, Freelance Writers, Freelance WritingWhen I first started telling people I was going to quit my full-time job and go freelance, I think they heard “rogue” instead. It’s as if I just announced I was going to make a living making balloon animals or shooting to outer space. It’s hard to explain their expression-a mix of disbelief, pity and [...]
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