A year ago today, I was laid off from the longest job I ever held. I planned to leave last summer; they unknowingly moved the date up 6 or 7 months. The year following every layoff I’ve ever had has always been productive and fun. This past year has been the best! The Year in […]
The Best Productivity Tip I Know
There’s a huge industry based around productivity. I only have a couple productivity books, but I follow many blogs that discuss productivity in passing. I can see the allure of constantly revising one’s system for being productive. (It’s kind of like revising a story or article if you think about it.) I see reviews for […]
Head Over to Social Media Examiner
I recently wrote about a LinkedIn traffic trick that helped get more traffic from my LinkedIn profile to The Juggling Writer and my other sites. In the last paragraph of the entry, I mentioned that I answer questions on LinkedIn when I feel I can help somebody or add to the conversation. I recently answered […]
Does Writing Make You Happy?
Does writing make you happy? Should writing make you happy? I’ve talked with other writers and the results are mixed. If It Makes You Miserable One thing I hear even more than whether writing makes writers happy is how miserable it makes them. I’ve encountered writers who talk about how they have to write, even […]
Having a Writing Backup Plan
I’ve known writers who were bombarded with, “What’s your backup plan in case it fails?” when they made the leap to writing full time. People who say, “You need a backup plan,” to writers are right — we all need backup plans…including people in day jobs. Their Plan The funny thing — most people with […]
The Effects of Hurrying
As a writer, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sometimes worry about people’s lack of focus. People seem to rush about in a blur — I hear more and more people say they don’t have time to read. I see people reply tl;dr (short for “too long; didn’t read”) in comments on blogs […]
The Exceptions
People say stories like this one about a single father rising from poverty to e-book publishing success are exceptions. And they are. But bestselling novelists are also exceptions. If you aspire to becoming an exception, there’s more than one way there, now.
LinkedIn Traffic Trick
I recently did one little thing that increased traffic from LinkedIn to my websites almost three fold: I customized my link descriptions. Before and After My link descriptions used to read “Personal Website” and “Blog” — the standard LinkedIn defaults (along with “Company Website”). Also, I never used the third slot LinkedIn allows for links […]
The Influence of Movies
When I was a kid, my father took me to movies I shouldn’t have been seeing when I was 5 or 6. When The Enforcer came out, the theater ran the original Dirty Harry along with it. More than remembering the movie, I remember the theater — how it smelled like smoke, sweat, and the […]
How to Write Like a Small Business
Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. While people lined up [in some cases, last night] for Black Friday deals at large chain retailers, there’s a movement planning to shop locally tomorrow. It’s not about getting the best deals on mass produced electronics; it’s about supporting the people who actually live in your neighborhood. I Understand Being […]
When Getting Published Was Hard
With the rise of self publishing, I’ve heard many people over the years say, “When it was harder to get published, it weeded people out.” True, writers have more options than ever to get their work out there, but I still wouldn’t say it’s easy. I think what people mean is when it was harder […]
How to Back Up Your Writing
I turned on my computer last weekend and nothing happened. I had a moment of panic: “My writing!!!” Fortunately, I back my writing up. The worst part of last weekend was reinstalling Windows 7 and reinstalling all my programs. It would have been a terrible weekend and week if I didn’t keep back ups. Here […]
Building A Solid Writing Foundation
I’ve picked up books that floored me with the writing. I appreciated the way the authors put words together — going as far as wondering what it must be like to have a mind that can write such beautiful prose. Many times, though, about 40-50 pages in I stopped and thought: “Okay, this is nice […]
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