The toughest part of writing is starting, staring at the blank page, trying to remember all your brilliant ideas. You had so many of them last night, during your kid’s piano recital… and again, during that totally unproductive meeting at work… but now… now.. Where have all the ideas gone?
This is the relationship between ideas and blank papers/screens. It could revolutionize your writing productivity to know this: an… Continue reading
Creating is not difficult, necessarily. It’s not even time-consuming. When you’re really going, when you’re in the midst of creating, producing, you’re hardly slow. You’re moving at the right pace. You’re in the flow.
No, the difficult, time-consuming thing is to get past all the sludge, the details, the urgent, the unimportant, the obligations, the demands, the interruptions and Do The Work.
For writers, this means butt-to-chair.
For… Continue reading
Use your website, blog, or your presence in the local community to publicize a give-away. You don’t have to have hundreds of people participate, and you don’t have to give away anything expensive.
It can be a product or service you offer, or it can be something completely different, a fruit basket or book or gift card to a local coffee shop. It doesn’t really matter what… Continue reading
“Online Marketing for Small Business” workshop: Tuesday, September 21, from 7 to 9 p.m.. Get help finding the most effective and affordable ways to reach people online. From basic websites and blogging to Twitter, Google ad words, and Facebook, this workshop will help small businesses choose the right fit for online marketing, get the basics of web writing and site design, and create a step-by-step strategy for getting started and… Continue reading
Trivia Library has an interesting little page on the 20 Most Prolific Writers in Literary History. In number one position is Mary Faulkner [or should I say Kathleen], who produced 904 books in her 70-year life. Assuming she probably didn’t begin writing books until after adolescence, say, around 20 years old, then she produced an average of 18 books a year for 50 years.
The most well-known… Continue reading
Writing happens when you begin to treat the resistance as the intangible, shadowy, powerless thing that it is and
Hi, I'm Annie Mueller. I'm a freelance writer, a blogger, and a general, all-around over-achiever. I love producing great pieces for editors and great content for small business owners.
