The Ingredients for a Successful Writing Career
What makes any creative career successful is a combination of factors across key areas of an artist’s life and work.
Writing Career
Speak the Scary. Do the Scary.
Anytime we take a risk of extending ourselves, pushing our limitations, exposing our efforts in front of others, it can…
Positive-training Your Creative Career
Olympic skater Alysa Liu rejected the rigid regimen imposed on her by her father and others and created her own…
The Carrot and the Stick
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Everything seemed fine when we first walked…
What’s the Point?
One of the things that has been striking me lately is that regardless of your ideological or political beliefs, it…
Deadlines, Expectations, and Reaching Beyond Your Grasp
As creatives pursuing a career in publishing, we are all essentially freelance entrepreneurs—meaning it’s up to us to create frameworks…
Plan to Build Your Writing Career
If you hope to write professionally and create a career from your creative efforts—whether it serves as your sole income…
When Should You Hire an Editor?
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The Glass Is Always Full
This holiday that inspires reflection on what we are grateful for always makes me think of an exchange my husband…
Luck and the Ladder of Life
It’s humbling, and sometimes discouraging, to imagine that regardless of what we may put into our careers (or anything else),…