The Magic and Mystery of Creative Writing

Creative Writing is writing that comes from the heart. It’s opposite, I suppose, would be technical writing, where you’re writing to sell a product or provide instruction. The only thing…

How to Score Your First Freelance Writing Client

A freelance writing career is a fun, flexible and rewarding career for any writer, and it also has the potential to be quite lucrative. It takes a lot of hard…

10 Lessons From a Resurrected Freelance Writing Career

I’ve learned a lot in my sixteen-year freelance writing career, especially because it is technically two freelance writing careers, bifurcated by the Great Recession of 2008, which coincided with the…

11 Mind-Clearing Methods for Beating Writer’s Block

It doesn’t matter whether you actually write for a living or not. Sometimes the pipes freeze, the lights turn off—or whatever your preferred euphemism for writer’s block is. Because life…