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Fear of Failure or Fear of Success?
Writing Are you building an online presence with your blog? Do you hold back when you should be forging onward? Do you question where you plan to go with your blog or your writing career? You do most of the right things, but when it comes down to it, you slack off or stay just under the radar. Is it failure you fear, or even worse, maybe it’s success you fear. Have you thought about it? Most would say they have fear of failure, but if the truth is ...
Continue readingJournaling Your Intentions
Writing On Wednesday I covered Setting Daily Intentions to Achieve Your Goals. I had some nice responses. David Walker even reported that he had used the method for a good night’s sleep and it worked like a charm. It does work, and while it’s not 100% foolproof 100% of the time, I would say it works at least 95% of the time—to me, that’s good results. Remember, setting daily intentions is about what you want to achieve in the ...
Continue readingSetting Daily Intentions to Achieve Your Goals
Writing In my post Tips for Success: Begin With the End in Mind I talked about goals and other such things. Today I want to talk about setting intentions and not leaving things to chance. Setting intentions is different than setting goals; intentions are more for the here and now—in the moment—than they are for long term. But setting daily intentions will help you achieve your goals. Decide how you want to feel and what you want to accomplish. You ...
Continue readingTheme-a-Day for Freelance Writers
Writing I recently posted about your writing passion, stepping out of your niche and having a theme for the day. Depending on how many topics you cover each week and how many websites you write for, you may want to consider adding a theme to each day’s writing. Some topics can even be stacked if they’re closely related or if you don’t have enough days to cover every niche you write about. A typical week for me covers topics about ...
Continue readingBlogger’s Passion; Outside the Box
Writing I get more daily blog posts emailed to me in a day than I could possibly read, but if the title catches my attention I do stop to read the post. I’m subscribed to several of the most popular blogging sites, as I’m sure you are too. That doesn’t mean you have to read every single post. If you’re reading 5 or 6 blog posts per day, then chances are you aren’t writing enough of your own material–and that could ...
Continue readingA Writer’s Health and Resolutions
Writing As a writer, how healthy are you? How many days a week do you fall out of bed, stagger to the coffee pot, grab a smoke and then plant yourself in front of the computer? Be honest. Maybe coffee and cigarettes aren’t your vice—maybe it’s a soda and donut—the fact is you’re most likely planting your buns on the work chair instead of getting up working those buns first. If you’re like me, when you start a new project you ...
Continue readingCan We Beat Our Best in 2010?
Writing Can We Beat Our Best in 2010? 2009 has been a great year. By the time you read this it will have ended and we’ll be starting 2010—hopefully with a Bang! Many of us have our goals planned for the New Year, some are still laying out the plans, some are reflecting on the accomplishments of the past year. Some writers have added a theme to their life and career titled, “Make it Happen in 2010.” No matter what your goals for the ...
Continue readingThird Person Pronouns
Writing In this final article on pronouns I will be addressing pronouns used for third person. Pronouns take the place of nouns which means that third person pronouns do the same thing. They take the place of people, but these pronouns do not include first person or second person forms. Third person singular pronouns are: he, she, and it. These pronouns are used when the pronoun is the subject of the sentence. Example: He went to the store and never ...
Continue readingGiving Constructive Criticism
Writing It’s a well-known fact that writers need to develop a thick skin to be in this business. I agree with that, but there are many great writers out there who’ve been demoralized by rude (deconstructive) critiques of their work. In working as a Course Presenter for the Fear of Writing online course, I’ve become extremely aware of this problem. There are so many writers who consider themselves an authority and will literally nail ...
Continue readingWriting Down the Blues (and Boredom)
Writing Do you ever feel the lack-luster of the writing life? It can be a lonely profession, especially if you write non-fiction. Fiction writers have it a little easier because they’re always in good company with their characters. I get the best (and worst) of both worlds. Today, I want to do anything but write an article. I’m simply not in a non-fiction mood. The weather is gloomy; we’re under a flash flood watch. It should be ...
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