The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

How can you combine multiple options for a more creatively satisfying — and profitable — author career? In the intro, Power Thesaurus and editing tips for audio ; How Writers Fail — Kris Rusch; Finishing energy ; Sidekick for Shopify ; Shadow Survey (please complete before 31 Aug 2023). Rachael Herron gives her tips. Look at you now.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2011

As writers, we rely on our unique ability to convey the visual world in words. You think you’re writing project is hard? I’m Steff, a legally blind writer and blogger. As I write this, my nose is about 1cm from the computer screen (that’s 2/5 of an inch, for those of you who are imperially inclined).

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Men With Pens

MAY 22, 2014

The Muse - the source of creativity and inspiration that all writers search for so desperately. No more writer’s block, no more floundering for inspiration and ideas. How to Find Your Muse – and Fire Her first appeared on Men With Pens Copyright 2006 — 2014, All Rights Reserved. Better Writing'

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 11, 2011

In short, it’s about everything you need to succeed in your writing life. As a writer, you will get the mean reds. Think of a piece of writing that inspires you. Then, start writing. You find your writing voice by…writing. The same is true for you and your writing. It’s guaranteed.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He’s also an unlikely candidate for a writer’s hero. Blackbeard can teach us a thing (or three) about running a successful writing business. If you’re trying to forge a niche for yourself as a writer, then you could definitely learn a few lessons from this scurvy pirate. Listen, Ye Landlubbers! Be THE Best.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

Too often, we writers fob reviews off as easy content. After all, someone else has done the creative work – it’s simply our job to judge it. And being loud, opinionated writers, we’re quite fond of judging. A review tests the writer’s skill at persuasion and description. Why are you writing a review?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How does curiosity fuel creativity? Maria Brito talks about How Creativity Rules the World. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. How did you break out of such a high-paying job to start a creative business?

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 18, 2011

Upcoming posts will focus on better writing skills, in honor of Damn Fine Words ‘s launch. It’s the only online writing course that teaches you how to improve your writing skills AND get business results. You know that writers need to read to improve their writing skills. How do the writers do it?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

The age of novel writing is over. So what’s the writer who has a message to share with the world to do? Not because I wanted to be a business writer, but because I wanted to be heard. Because I don’t like business writing. You need to write like you mean it and spend the effort asking permission to be heard.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

And this one – on what to do about writing when life sucks – hits the target. And when you sit down to write (if you even get that far), you feel like you have nothing to say. That’s the best time to write. First get the head space to write. Writing takes energy and focus, and on good days, that might come easily.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One of the biggest barriers facing a new writer – a blogger, a novelist, a copywriter – is the self-knowledge of just how far away you are from their ideal. I was afraid to show my work to my peers, even though they had offered to look at my work and help me figure out how to make my writing better. But there is this gap.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. Because actually, I never had it in my life plan to become a writer. And yet, as you said, it's actually the daily exercise of writing, finding readers, publishing. My goal was write 1000 words a day or write 2000 words a day.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 22, 2012

Today we’re announcing the winners of the Damn Fine Words writing contest … but boy, was it EVER tough to choose just two submissions. 25 people fought hard to win a chance to get into the Damn Fine Words writing course and learn effective techniques that would change their life. Some posts were straightforward.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

Usually you spend years in your industry, soaking up its knowledge for a decade before you write your own “how to” manual. You don’t start freelancing by writing a book. And I didn’t write just any old nonfiction “How to Run a Business” book – I wrote a fiction thriller novel.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I couldn’t write. I could write. I tried writing the mid-sections first, thinking I’d work on the intro after, but that didn’t help. That theory about tortured writers? I couldn’t write easily, and it felt like a dirty little secret. Had I lost my creativity? Not blog posts, though.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 16, 2012

How to find the time to write. Even writers complain they can’t find the time to write!). Time to write ? But you need to find the time to write. Writing is integral to business success. Your Invitation to Find Time to Write. times of the day to write and be creative.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 19, 2021

You can add the members with different roles like owner, editor, admin, reader, and draft writer–each having the right to leave comments on articles and mention other co-workers. Moreover, it’s fully customizable, so you have full creative freedom. You can add links, videos, images, tables, code samples, and call outs.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. This was 2005, 2006.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. This was 2005, 2006.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 13, 2012

Writer’s block. These are the writing idea killers. Cater to them, and you’ll run out of words, live in doubt and constantly fight with your writing confidence. Destroy them, and you’ve freed yourself from the psychological traps of writer’s block forever. How do you cure writer’s block?

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 5, 2012

True confession now: On my first draft, I don’t even try to be a good writer. And that’s true whether I’m writing an ad, a news article or a personal essay. So if you’re an AW (amateur writer, i.e., you don’t write for a living), you should be encouraged, because you can take the pressure off yourself when you sit down to write.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2012

For many writers, getting stuck in a phase of writer’s block can seem like the worse experience imaginable. Here I am, a supposed writer, and I can’t come up with anything to write. How can I even call myself a writer if I am struggling like this? It’s a very necessary part of the trade, those moments of doubt.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. If you want to make a career of writing, should you look for a full-time job in a company or strike out on your own as a freelancer?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

Writers come in different flavors. There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), technical writers and… Fiction writers. Writing fiction is self-indulgence. It’s hard to write good fiction. Even though writing a short story takes a week of hard graft.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Tons of professional writers offer consultations (in person, online, or by phone), e-courses, lectures, tutoring, coaching, conference presentations, and workshops in places as diverse as their own living rooms and large auditoriums. Of course, you can teach writing courses, as I do. Here are some perks and tips to get you started.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

If your writing ever starts to feel like a daily grind, it’s time to STOP. I’m not saying that you should stop writing for good. You’d lose a crucial part of your life (and your income, if your writing forms all or part of your paid work). When you sit down to write, do you feel excited?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 14, 2011

I got my first rejection letter as a freelance writer when I was 19 years old. Impress the editor with your deep understanding of what the publication needs from you as a writer. Become fluent with the writer’s guidelines. Editors are busy and read through mounds of desperate writer emails every day.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Some ways to get links include guest posting on blogs, writing for article directories, and sending out press releases. If you have to do marketing and write press releases, then why do SEO at all? About the Author: Nancy Strauss is a writer and entrepreneur based in Spain. Tags: Better Writing. You do SEO for the future.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve known each other a few years and have exchanged many pleasantries as fellow writers and Canadians. I started my career imagining I would write the Great Canadian Novel and instead ended up writing marketing copy for the Great Canadian Bagel (figuratively speaking, at least. My novels were buried too.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Phil can write! As I began writing books and blogging myself, I developed an entirely new appreciation for Peart’s genius that affects my writing to this very day. In this post, I share some of Neil’s writing tips that can help scribes of all levels. Forget writing well. Just write, before it gets away.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2011

Advance your blogging swagger : Use your writing experience of guest posting at top sites to negotiate a higher blogging rate when applying for paid work. No matter how well you write, if what you’ve created has recently been covered at the targeted host’s site, chances are your efforts will be in vain, and you’ll have wasted everyone‘s time.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Maybe you’ve seen CEOs with a few productivity books and wondered how they had time to write them. . That person had some help from another writer, a ghostwriter. . A ghostwriter is hired to write works that officially credit another person as the author. You’re not alone. What is a ghostwriter? magazine articles . screenplays.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

How can we build a creative life based on following our curiosity? In the intro, author newsletter tips [ BookBub ]; Mark Dawson's 20+ year writing journey ; Thoughts on 20Books Seville and London Book Fair with me and Orna Ross [ Ask ALLi ]; HarperCollins is testing AI-generated content, reported by Jane Friedman [ The Hotsheet ].

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of our readership isn’t just into writing for the scads of money to be made while working in your pajamas and holding a beer in one hand (because that’s how freelancing works, right?). Many of you are fascinated by the idea of writing just because you love it. Many of you are creative writers, or role players , or gamers.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Build Creative AND Business Skills. Or, you can see the business side of blogging and content marketing really clearly and lack the basics of the creative skills needed to run a sustainable business online. Among the most important ones, you need to know how to write copy for the web. Google bought YouTube in 2006.)

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

As I began to blog, as I began to find my voice, I realized that I really enjoyed writing about all kinds of things. And then there were other people who began to read that blog, Living Room blog, because I was writing about blogging and not many other people were writing about how to make money from blogs at that time.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Our ability to produce creative quality on just five hours sleep is a badge of honour that’s applauded and lauded! It’s easier to get frustrated or discouraged when you’re lacking snooze-time, and you might find yourself struggling for creative ideas or feeling snappish with clients – the guys who pay your bills, remember?

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