“No one cares about you and your life” — You’re NOT special! You’re NOT some unique beautiful snowflake whose “rich inner life” is worth sharing! What the heck did you think? That you’re bloody Anne Frank, living through momentous times that need to be preserved for effing posterity?! The reality is no one gives a flying crap about you…

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Writers write! — When I’m driving down the road, music at full blast, and singing along, I’m Mick Jagger. I’m Steven Tyler. I’m Tina Turner. I’m Freddie Mercury. I’m Adele. I’m mother-humping Whitney Houston. I’m ALL of them. But, boy oh boy, you can’t imagine the utter shock I experienced that one fateful…

A comic —

8 strategies that have worked for me — If you ever write a story that takes off, you’ll face a horde of people sweeping in who have no idea who you are. And that’s great. You want new people to find you. That’s the whole point of publishing your words online. However, if the topic you wrote about…

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Or why you need to publish more if you want to earn more — As a writer who has spent way too many hours — and often entire weeks — fiddling around with articles to get them just right, there’s one thing I hate. And I hate it as much as I hate treating crotch fungus with Tabasco sauce. But it’s the truth. When…

It’s a competitive advantage — Writing is hard. Making people fall in love with your writing is harder. Paying the bills by just writing whatever the heck you want is damn near impossible. And yet, we seem shocked — yes, shocked! — when after months and years of grinding on the writer’s treadmill, we are…