Posts Filed Under Productivity
by Dean Rieck
Do you want to know the real secret of success?
Okay, I’ll tell you. But first I want you to meet my grandparents. They lived in the heart of West Virginia. As a child, I spent many long summer days at their home, running in the wide green yard and splashing through the creek looking for crawdads. I’d play until my grandmother called me in for dinner.
The meals were never fancy but always fresh because my grandparents raised a lot of their own food, including corn, potatoes, green beans, strawberries, grapes, cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, onions, and a few chickens.
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by Jane Northcote
If you’ve researched your topic, you understand your audience and you know what you want to say, then moving to action and starting to write should be utterly straightforward and require no particular effort. Right?
Not so. All writers, whether scribing for books, blogs or whitepapers, know only too well that sometimes this just isn’t the case. Getting down to the physical act of writing can take a herculean force of will.
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by James Chartrand
Have you ever had these thoughts?
- “I wish my blog had content this good.”
- “Wow… How does he come up with this stuff?”
- “Boy, I wish I could write like that!”
Now for the big questions:
- Why aren’t you writing content that good?
- Why isn’t your content profound?
- Why can’t you write thought-provoking content that rocks the blogosphere?
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by Brian Clark
I did my first guest post in well over a year-and-a-half for Leo’s Zen Habits. Those of you who have read the Teaching Sells report will recognize the story, but it’s got a modified, more explicit ending.
Check it out here, and if you’re a fan of The Smiths, Joy Division and vintage New Order, make sure to click through the links at the band names for some way cool 80s alternative videos.
P.S. Give it a Digg if you like it. :-)
by Anna Goldsmith
When you tell people you’re a freelancer writer, they immediately make a few assumptions:
- You spend the whole day in your pajamas, and
- “Freelance writing” is really code for “unemployed.”
I say, fine: Let them think this. Who needs the competition? The truth is, if you’re smart about it, you can make a lot more money working for yourself than working for someone else, and you don’t have to punch a time clock.
Yeah! Now, here are five tips for actually getting some work done.
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by Michael Stelzner
As writers, many of us love to create, but not on someone else’s schedule.
For me, I get random bursts of inspiration at the strangest hours. Often in the middle of the night I can pump out some really thought provoking work.
But here’s the problem: If you’re a professional writer, you’re expected to finish each writing project on a given schedule.
I have rarely met a writer that can bang out excellent content, on schedule, all the time.
So the real question is this: How do you force yourself to regularly produce high quality written work?
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