Word magic.
Is your writing process working for you? Authors tend to equate success with sales, but a lot goes into high book sales: Writing! Bestselling authors all have a writing process which enables them to be productive; Marketing. Although marketing today is easier than it’s ever been, marketing is still an enormous challenge for authors; Strategy. In summary, you need a … Read more
If you’ve got a blog and wish that your blog could be more successful, it’s time to build your blog. Over the past few weeks, while I’ve been setting up this new version of the blog, I’ve received lots of questions. Many of the questions had a subtext of how long does it take? “It” could be anything — make … Read more
Want to write more and sell more of your writing? Try journaling. Sadly, when I suggest journaling to some writers, they tell me that they don’t have time. “Journaling? I don’t have time to journal…” Somerset Maugham is one of my favorite authors. He kept writing journals all his life. (If you get a chance, read his book, A Writer’s … Read more
We’ve all got 24 hours in every day, but time trickles away from us in seconds and minutes. It’s a challenge to be more productive. A writing student recently asked what she could do if she never had a whole hour to devote to her writing. I could only tell her what I’d done when my children were small — … Read more
Blogging gives you a wonderful return for the time you spend on it. It’s the power of words in action. Your blog may or may not change the world, but your blog will change you: this is why I tell my student bloggers: you can’t fail at blogging. Way back in the 1970s I ran a small business. Marketing was … Read more