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The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Your Writing Fears

by Ollin Morales Before you read this article, I would like you to try something: Move your eyes away from your computer screen and take a deep breath. Feel the air as it moves through your nostrils, down your throat, and feel it fill your diaphragm to the brim. As...

Have You Seen This Bogus Blog-For-Pay Offer?

It's always flattering when your blogging work attracts prospective clients who'd like to pay you to blog. But I've discovered not all paid-blogging offers are what they seem. Here's the tale of one disturbing little encounter I had recently, which shows it pays to...

Top 10 Articles for Writers for February 2011

Here it is again, scribes, my collection of the articles and blog posts that most amused me this fortnight. In this edition, I find my Top 10 Blogs for Writers colleagues were really cranking. It also appears my mind was on selling and the business end of writing this...

Why Content is No Longer King

You've all heard the expression that when it comes to websites and blogging, "content is king." For a while, it was true. Sites stuffed their pages with junk content -- much of it almost unreadable, robot-generated SEO garbage -- and were rewarded with better rankings...

Want 1,000 Blog Subscribers? Just ‘Invent’ Them

By Judy Dunn, Cat's Eye Writer When I was writing for children, I used to cut out photos of cute 6-year-olds from magazines and tape them to my whiteboard. You could say I invented them. It helped me fill that big black hole, you know that audience you talk to as a...

How to Tell a Writing Client Their Ideas Suck

Sometimes, you find a copywriting client, and it's like a dream. They love you! You love them! You create awesome copy together...until one day, it all goes wrong. This happened to me recently. I found myself in a situation where I needed to tell a client -- a big,...

Why Nothing’s Happening With Your Blog

As I work more and more with both freelance writers and small business owners looking to build up their blogs, I find these two groups have the same problems. Their blogging journey generally develops like this: Start a blog. All excited! Write a few posts. Write a...

How to Get Noticed on Twitter – 15 Tips for Writers

Recently, I peeked in my mailbag and spied an urgent email from a reader of the blog. She was having trouble getting any traction in promoting her paid blogging gig on Twitter: I write for this site, and most of the hits or "recommendations" stories get are from the...

5 Steps to Lucrative Gigs Writing for Nonprofits

By Alan Kravitz Can you really make a living with nonprofits? I get this question a lot -- especially since I specialize in nonprofits. My answer is an emphatic "yes" -- if you're realistic and target your prospects carefully. These are gargantuan-sized ifs in the...

30 Ways to Bust Out of Writer’s Block

One thing's for sure -- if you're going to be a high-earning freelance writer, you can't spend a lot of time staring at a blank page (or screen). Beating writer's block is an important skill that can up your earnings. When you can block out a few hours and count on...

Does Your Blog Make This Devastating Mistake?

It happens to me time and again. Since winning Top 10 Blogs for Writers, writers email me and ask -- "Would you take a look at my blog and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Why can't I get any comments? Why doesn't anyone subscribe?" There could be a lot of reasons for...

How Freelance Writers Can Add Passion to Their Prose

by Larry Brooks It's so easy to get overwhelmed in this business. Deadlines. Writer's block. Procrastination. Cranky clients. Competition. And perhaps at the bottom of the barrel, apathy and boredom. This is as true for freelance writers as it is for novelists and...

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