People frequently ask questions about how to break into freelancing or get writing jobs. It’s a bit of a catch-22 situation because you need clips to get jobs as a writer, but you need writing jobs to
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Writing
Why Writers Should Journal (Even When We Don’t Want To)
I write at least two original blog posts or pages a day and edit multiple others daily. I get why, as a writer, you
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What to Journal About
Well, now that we’re a few months in, how’s journaling going? You may have read that one of my goals for 2024 was to
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Focusing on Writing When You Lack Focus
Do you ever have those days when you just flit around from one project to the next, feeling the chaos of the busyness in
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There’s No Such Thing as Writer’s Block
I recently asked my students their views on writing. It seemed important when starting a fresh writing class to talk
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The Best Quotes About Writing Tight
I love a good quote. There’s just something about the ability to summarize a complex thought or issue concisely and
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Making Time for Podcasts
You know that listening to podcasts is beneficial for so many reasons, including helping improve your writing and
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15 Ways to Work Your Beat
Newsrooms aren’t the chaos you see on TV and in the movies. In real-life newsrooms, there’s more of a method to who does
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Determining News Value
Think about the last story you read, bumped into on social media, or saw on the news — the last thing it seemed like
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How to Write More Without Spending More Time Writing
Sometimes you have a heavy writing load and need to crank out a lot of copy. This idea is especially true for freelance
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