• Writer Tips

    Drink from the Fountain of Youth

    Tweet Lately, I’ve been meeting an insane amount of people on Twitter with tons of energy, passion and charisma. The thing they all have in common? Their youth. In a weird serendipitous way, I’ve also been learning about people with young souls on Ainslie McLeod’s new webinar recently. Young souls according to him, are ambitious, passionate, go-getters. In other words, “the world is their oyster.” They don’t have the baggage of older souls who have been to hell and back. And they’re on this earth to learn how to be and they’re going out there with arms and hearts wide open.…

  • Writer Tips

    A Secret to a Successful Freelance Writing Career

    Tweet You might read the title and blow it off. I mean come on, one secret! One secret to a success! There’s no way or is there? Here’s what I know for sure: While there are no easy ways to success, there is a simple way. And it’s one thing you can do now that will help you down the road to success. In the almost year long path that I’ve been on a pursuit to follow my freelance writing dreams, I’ve learned a few things.

  • Writer Issues Solved

    You Are What You Think

    Tweet photo by: yui.kubo You know that saying, “You are what you eat?” I think it applies to writing too. How? As a graduate student in Psychology, I learned that there was an important interchangeable triangle that affected the way we did things. Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviors What we think influences how we feel. For example, if you’re telling yourself how horrible of a writer you are, you’ll feel horrible. And how you feel also affects your behavior. What we feel influences what we think. If you just received another magazine rejection and feel like you’ll never get published, you’ll start…

  • Business of Freelance Writing - Writer Issues Solved

    How to Make Money by Writing for a Living: It doesn’t have to be an either or thing.

    Tweet I’ve become enamored with Martha Beck’s book, “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life.” Knee deep in chapter 4 (Creativity), I’ve been filled with mind blowing concepts that has thrilled me to no end. One of the titillating tidbits made me question my own freelance writing business skills and I thought I’d share the wealth with you. I’m sure you already know that your thoughts control your actions. Saying to yourself hundred times of day, “I’m not good enough to make it as a freelancer,” for example, will inevitably help your thoughts become reality. But I…