The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph: Okay, well, you know how superheroes have origin stories, I have a very strange writer origin story. I had finished reading something, a thriller by a fairly popular thriller writer at the time, and absolutely hated it. But I know you as an indie writer. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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Content Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Cue another Terminator GIF… What Happened When I Compared ChatGPT to a Content Hacker Writer. I’ve been in content since 2011. Since then, I’ve been behind over 40,000 content projects, which have generated over $5M in sales to my businesses, and much more to my clients’ businesses. ” – OpenAI.

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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. Joanna: For sure.

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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. Joanna: For sure.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Joanne: So I've always written and made up stories, like most writers, really. Then I began publishing chapters of it on a blog back in, I think, about 2011. Early in 2012, after I got my first Kindle and read about self-publishing in the writers magazines that I used to buy, I decided to take the plunge.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

So I started my Books and Travel podcast and the website back in early 2019, obviously before the pandemic. I thought I was going to write, and move into more travel genres — and I still love my Books and Travel podcast , I may still do an occasional episode, or a solo show or something, and I'll keep the website.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

In the intro, I mention the 6 Figure Author Podcast , The Writers Well Podcast , and Reid Hoffman's new Possible podcast. Show notes: Overview of the Pilgrimage campaign including rewards, add-ons, and the result Why Kickstarter for this project, and why now for me Tips for success: Learn about the platform beforehand.

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Bramework

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Companies focused on building websites and populating them with as much content as possible, hoping to game search engines and be discovered by users. From social media to websites, content can educate and inspire readers wherever they are online. Influencer marketing spending was projected to reach $15 billion by 2022.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

We are only at the beginning of the opportunities of AI for wider society as well as for creativity and art, and it’s important that authors, writers, and other creatives be involved in order to shape the future as we want it to be. The development of photography might be the closest comparison to where writers are now. To do the work.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Check Writer Beware for years of them, most of them prior to generative AI. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2018

Links and Resources for From Passion Project to Over $100,000 in Advertising Revenue. She has grown that blog, which started as a passion project, with no real intent of making money. It’s a total passion project. Then the website launched a few months later. I was a freelance writer from my paid work.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

And I think as I've grown up and become a writer, it's just the adult version of talking to yourself in lots of ways. So that led to my next kind of major project, which was a series of short stories set in Nepal. But that wasn't till about 2011 it really started to accelerate this interest in her. They're seeing everything.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When I started what was to be my content marketing journey in 2011, I had NO idea what kind of explosive growth was in store. Websites with 400+ blog posts receive more than 2x the traffic of blogs with 301-400 posts. 87% of B2C brands track website traffic to measure content performance. Incredible, right?! billion by 2027.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well. Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Then comics are really expensive, and they take forever, so I started writing books in the interim between comic projects. Is that why you favored graphic novels and why you still do a lot of very visual projects? Do you think you're much more of a visual person than a lot of the text-based writers? Russell: Sure.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

One of the most daunting tasks facing writers is the task of finishing the rough draft. For many writers, the rough draft is the hardest part because they don’t know how to shut off the critical part of their brain and just finish it. We are our own worst critics. Instead, they nitpick. They rewrite the intro a hundred times.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 18, 2012

This was the most valuable part – a complete writing system, an approach that could be used to take any project from start to finish. Then I landed a new project that paid $1,000 – a decent sum. Again I used the Damn Fine Words approach, and completing this project was easy. I thought I was a decent writer a year ago.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities. And I often stress there are multiple streams of income that business and entrepreneurial writers have.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him. Ryan Holiday.

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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. I write monthly columns on disability websites about the amusing things that happen to me. As writers, we’re eternally curious.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I’m a full-time freelance writer with a travel blog as a side project. I’d started the blog as a passion project. Completed a 23,000-word travel guide for my website that I started writing years ago but never finished. Wrote several guest posts that were published on relevant websites in my niche.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 7, 2011

So when she sent me this guest post that outlines some of her learning curve lessons as a new freelancer, I was thrilled – here was someone who’d gone from zero to being a confident writer who could stand up for herself, and for her business. “If I give you more projects, can I get a discounted hourly rate?&# from Lisa – enjoy!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2012

After all, writing ebooks are typically known as huge, long projects, right? You’re now the proud author of a great ebook, and you’ve got a very nice piece of marketing material for your blog, website, or email list. How to Write a Free Ebook in Just 7 Days first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

Too often, we writers fob reviews off as easy content. And being loud, opinionated writers, we’re quite fond of judging. A review tests the writer’s skill at persuasion and description. “Bathory’s Blood Fire Death is a groundbreaking album – a one-man project of Quorthon, who is now dead.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 25, 2011

Here’s what’s even cooler: As Ainslie worked through the lessons and the course, she began applying her new knowledge to her own business – and within just a few months of launching her website, her blog received an award. I thought good writers could do this all at once!”. and recycle for every project you work on…?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

It’s a wonderful place to be, and if you’d come looking for me on October 7, 2011, it’s exactly where you would’ve found me. A good trailer is the starting gun for a blockbuster movie that rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars, where a bad one is a bullet to the brain of a project doomed from the start.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Clients can view and interact with shared dashboards, collaboration tabs, and reports, while staff — e.g., writers or social media managers — can alternate between open and closed conversations. Since its 2011 launch, Scoop.it! On Zoho, for instance, you can set roles with corresponding access and permissions. Click to enlarge.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

It must have been 2011, maybe 2010. I just had a website that I found out right up. I obviously needed a website for that but I didn’t want a website that I would have to go back to someone to update. That’s why I call myself the accidental blogger because I just wanted a website I could update myself. Nikki: Yes.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

It must have been 2011, maybe 2010. I just had a website that I found out right up. I obviously needed a website for that but I didn’t want a website that I would have to go back to someone to update. That’s why I call myself the accidental blogger because I just wanted a website I could update myself. Nikki: Yes.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Exeter (writer and editor) . I look around this room and I know I’m not the best writer in this room. I’m not the best writer out there. Maybe you need to start a passion project on the side and evolve that. I just wanted traffic to my website.” Evolve: Training Day. Evolve: Mastermind.

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