If you’re stuck at home and can’t work, you may be considering a side hustle like freelance writing. The freelance writers in our writers’ group have received lots of questions. The most popular question is: how do you get started? Freelance writing: start with what you know and who ...
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Writing Fiction: A Quick Beginners’ Tip
Is there a trick to switching from nonfiction to writing fiction? The nonfiction author who asked this question in our online writer’s group was trying to write fiction during the lockdown. She found it tough. “There’s no flow to my fiction,” she told us. “It’s hard. I can get into a ...
Writing A Book: 3 Ways To Get Started And Keep Going
Thinking about writing a book while you’re on lockdown? It should be easy. You’ve got the time, after all. Unfortunately, when you sit down to write, your mind goes blank. After ten or 20 minutes of staring at the computer screen and hating yourself, you get up and turn on the TV. In ...
Writing Plans: 3 Strategies To Achieve Your Goals In 2020
At our first writers’ group meeting of 2020, we discussed our writing plans for this year. Only two of our members had created comprehensive plans with timelines and deadlines. I admire those writers, because even though I have a list of what I’d like to write this year, I haven’t set any ...
Writing Fiction? Choose Two Writing Strategies For 2020
“Writing fiction is hard,” one of our writers’ group members said in our final meeting before the holidays. “Next year, I’m choosing just two strategies. With just two, maybe I can focus and get better at writing.” We all loved her “two strategies” idea. The writer shared her strategies with ...
Your Bullet Journal: 5 Tips For Self-Publishing Authors
Our writers’ group has several self-publishing authors who happily use a bullet journal. So, in our last meeting, we discussed ways to use our journals to track book sales and other activities related to our businesses. “I’d love to use a bullet journal, but I’m not an artist,” one author ...
