This is a true story about my friend, Doug O’Brien. He is an accomplished musician and NLP trainer, personally trained and certified by Tony Robins and yet he had the following confession to share with…

A big portion about writing a best-selling book is not the writing only, it’s the selling. That’s why it’s called “Best-Selling Book” and not “Best-Writing Book”. You have to sell it really well. Here are…

To get writing work, you have to let people know you exist. Setting up a Web site is the best way to start, no matter where you are. If nothing else, it makes your work…

There are literally hundreds of writing contests open for entry at any time of the year. There are contests for every genre and level of experience — from amateur poetry writing contests to competitions for…

The Internet has changed the way publishing is done forever. Instead of taking months, or even years, to build a following for your writing, you can begin to build a following in just days. Building…

Reading Julia Cameron’s “The Sound of Paper” is like revisiting an old friend. For more than fifteen years, her morning pages have been my daily writing help, the friend that coaxed me out of fear…

Writers hate the job of writing a synopsis. For you, it might be right up there with death and public speaking in terms of the fear factor. If you’re having trouble and are procrastinating about…

Content is King! shout the search engines. That’s what the search engines love. We also love the non-reciprocal links that we get for our websites when our articles are published on other peoples’ sites with…