In today’s world, to be a writer we’re told that writing is not enough, you must market your work and do everything in your power to get the word out, even before you’ve written a sentence of your brilliant to-be manuscript.
Do you have dreams of your name on the top of the lists and everyone talking about your latest work? There’s nothing wrong with that. We should all aspire to do the best we can, and writing a bestselling book is a great ambition to have.
But… what if I told you there’s something better… much, much better?
Do you struggle with finishing? Believe me, I’ve been there.
Note: This is a guest post by Melissa Frey, she is the debut author of The Secret of the Codex. Learn more about her and find more of her writing tips at melissafrey.com.
Writer’s block is real. Every writer, at one point or another, has experienced this debilitating inability to make any real progress in his or her work.
Note: This is a guest post by Jordan Conrad, he’s the founder and publisher of WritingExplained.org. With free articles on English usage and basic grammar, Writing Explained is an essential resource for editors, freelancers, and authors alike. Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @Writing_Class.
We all want to finish the books or short stories we start, but sometimes we struggle. We could spend months or even years working on the same project and feel as though we aren’t making any headway. I did a poll once in the Goodreads book club I run for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, and “I won’t ever finish WIP” tied for third place as the biggest insecurity our members had.
Note: This is a guest post by Chrys Fey, she is the author of Write with Fey: 10 Sparks to Guide You from Idea to Publication and an editor for Dancing Lemur Press. Visit her blog, Write with Fey, for more tips and connect with her on Twitter. Enter her Rafflecopter giveaway by July 6th for the chance to win a writer’s notebook, coffee mug, and tote bag.
What if you could make a living online? Would that interest you? It interested me, and that’s why I connected with Matt McWilliams, who is the go-to expert. Matt shared something with me that I want to share with you (with his permission, of course).
Doubt kills our passion.
Our passion to write. Our passion to excel. Our passion to create.
It’s suffocating. Devastating.
Writing is hard. Sure, there’s the indescribable sense of flow when the words pour out oh-so-effortlessly, there’s that stroke of brilliance when a plot twist strikes out of nowhere, there’s the feeling of creating something that no one else has before. Every one of those feelings is motivating and rewarding and necessary for our long-term writing mojo. But…
Note: This is a guest post by Tamar Sloan, she’s a practicing psychologist, a freelance editor, consultant and the author of PsychWriter – a fun, informative hub of information on character development, the science of story and how to engage readers. Tamar is also an award-winning author of young adult romance, creating stories about finding life and love beyond our comfort zones.
Ah, the daily writing habit. The thorn-in-the-side for many writers.
You want to write. You love to write. You enjoy writing. You have things to say.
But you just can’t seem to sit down every day and put words on the page…
Note: This is a guest post by Jennifer Blanchard, she is a best selling author, an award-winning blogger, and the founder of Dream Life Or Bust, a movement created to inspire, motivate, educate and empower multi-passionate writers, artists and entrepreneurs to build a dream life and business around all of their passions and interests, so they can have the freedom to live on their terms and never have to choose just one thing. Grab her free audio training + workbook, “Multi-Passionate Productivity: How To Do Everything You Dream Of and Pull It All Off, here.
Note: This is a guest post by James Prescott, he’s a writing coach and author of the several books, including Dance Of The Writer: A Beginners Guide To Authentic Writing, available free at his website, jamesprescott.co.uk. Connect with James on Twitter at @JamesPrescott77
If there’s three words which have always brought discomfort to me as a writer, they would be ‘marketing’, ‘promotion; and ‘hustle’. They are major parts of the work of being a writer I really don’t enjoy. I know I’m not alone in that struggle either. Many of us struggle with promoting ourselves and our work, “getting attention,” as it were.