Tag Archive | goals
Weekend Assignment: Digging Out
Hello writers! It’s time to post up the first writing assignment of the new year. This past week, I remarked that while I love to be busy, I despise being so busy I can’t decide where to start. That pretty much sums up my year so far — too much to do, and no idea […]
5 Ways to Tap Your Creativity with a (Sort of) Vision Board
My first exposure to vision boards was through the television show Happy Endings and I have to admit, my reaction was much like Max’s. Really? A collage of pictures could change my destiny? While it might make good fodder for a TV sitcom, it sounds a bit like hokum to me. Then I read Martha Beck’s […]
Five Ways to Make 2012 Your Best Writing Year Ever
Just because January is over, doesn’t mean it’s too late to make writing resolutions for 2012. If you want to make this year better than last year, add these five things to your to-do list: 1. Educate yourself about scams. Nothing is sadder than sending your hard-won words off for publication, getting an acceptance, then […]
Weekend Assignment: You in Six Words
This week’s writing assignment is short and, hopefully, sweet. I got the idea when a local magazine I used to write for decided to run a contest on facebook last week. More about that in a minute. First, I want to point out the year is rapidly drawing to a close. A new year is […]
Writing Goals: Quarterly Check-In
April marks the end of the first quarter of the year. Time to re-examine those writing goals you made at the first of the year. What have you accomplished? Are you ready to tackle a new goal or goals? My original goals for the new year included: studying three new markets and pitching ideas to […]
Word Census – The Weekend Assignment that Wasn’t
Happy belated New Year! In case you are wondering what happened to the Weekend Assignment that was supposed to post on Friday, this is it. The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day disappeared without a trace of writing at my house and my scheduled blog post seems to have vanished right along with it. […]
Going Full Time as a Freelancer
Recently, as I browsed through the posts over at the Absolute Write Water Cooler, I ran across the question (paraphrasing here): Is it possible to make a living as a full time freelancer? The short answer is, “Yes, I’ve been doing it since 1994.” BUT (You knew there was a but, didn’t you?) Making enough […]
Brainstorms & Bylines 