WritingThoughts

“Uh oh, it’s happening again.” Even though it’s midnight and I’m exhausted I can’t sleep. I keep thinking of ideas for blog posts and articles. “I wonder, should I keep staring at the clock and hope that I’ll fall asleep? Or, should I give in and get up?” If you’re involved in a creative profession, […]

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Shh! Don’t tell anyone. . . I play favorites. I didn’t start out to do it, but that’s just that way that it has worked out. You see, I try to visit as many different blogs about freelancing and about writing as I can. I’ve shared many of those visits with you, and I have […]

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I’m often asked what it takes to become a freelance writer. There’s all kinds of answers that I could give to that question, but basically it boils down to one key factor: WORDS – I’m good with them. In fact, without my writing ability everything else that I’ve learned would be relatively useless. It’s always […]

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Over the holidays I had the opportunity to read a new book. I enjoyed it thoroughly . . . except for one thing . . . I hadn’t gotten very far in the novel before I began to feel like I had read it before. You see, while I hadn’t read that particular story before […]

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Is your writing timeless? By timeless I mean, will your content be meaningful to readers ten or twenty years from now? An example of writing that is already losing its meaningfulness would be an article about how to program a VCR. Or going back even further, a magazine article about how to operate an eight-track […]

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(www.writingthoughts.com) First of all, thanks to all of you readers for being so patient and waiting for me to get through my move. (As for those of you who lost patience and unsubscribed to this blog, well, you probably aren’t reading this – are you?) First of all, I promised on Twitter that I would […]

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All writers should change physical locations once in a while. Some of you may know that we are in the process of moving our household from one physical location to another. While the move is a very good thing for our family (nicer area) and for my business (a real office with a real door), […]

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Do you ever struggle to figure out what to write or blog about? Have you ever wrestled with the infamous writer’s block? Do the best ideas for articles and blog posts seem to come at the most inconvenient times? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then know that you’re not alone. Other […]

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By Dana Hanley I have always wanted to write. Not necessarily professionally, nor as a dependable income, but as a creative outlet and means of sharing my thoughts. I used to fill notebooks with half-written essays, outlines of research articles and openings to stories and an occasional poem scratched in between. Then I discovered blogging. […]

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By Deb Boyken Question: When did you start thinking of yourself as a writer? It’s not as easy a question as it seems. Clearly, if you make all of your money by writing, it’s easy to say, “I’m a writer.” A journalist. A novelist. A pro-blogger. A freelancer. All of these people can stand up […]

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