Or: What a Dead British Guy, a Student and a Cake-Obsessed Tax Advisor Can Teach You About Being a Productive Freelance Writer. Are you the sort of freelance writer who stresses about a piece of work way before it’s due? Do you…
Tag: Productivity
I re-read the The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris recently. I devoured it for the first time a few years ago but have since forgotten some of the principles that struck such a chord with me back then. I…
The reason you’re not achieving your goals is because you don’t truly believe you can achieve them. I know – news to you isn’t it? I hear you: “I do so believe in my dreams. I read, and I study my…
Most of what your mind will offer you when the doubts start to kick in about freelancing are based on what you’ve heard from other people. Or (more likely) what you’ve read online. The problem I have with most of…
(And other tenuous links…) Last year I ran my first ever half marathon in the west London suburb of Ealing. This year I’ll be doing it all over again. When I began my self-imposed training for this event, I didn’t…
As I write my first eBook, the value of a good proofreader is becoming more and more apparent. Here’s why it’s so important that you as a writer have a good proofreader at your disposal too. Why you should partner…
…a day job/the school run/writing a book/having a life (delete where applicable). If you only had freelance writing work to do then you could cope, right? If you could just sit at your computer/laptop/desk-with-quill all day long and get paid…
Good question. Why did I recently upgrade to Hootsuite Pro when there’s a perfectly adequate free version available? What was it that made me start paying $9.99 a month when I’ve been using the free version of this social media management…
Realising it was time for a change last week also made me realise that I don’t want to just be a good writer. And I don’t want that for you either. This week I want to go deeper and explore…
There are of course a number of ways to make money as a writer, particularly with all the possibilities that a little invention called the Internet has opened up for us lucky wordsmiths. While you’ll no doubt know many of…