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…

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A comic —

Or how NOT to starve to death because you have just one income trickle — If your dreams of being a writer didn’t involve being repeatedly punched in the nuts by financial insecurity, let me tell you how to strap on some groin protection gear and make a few more bucks. You see, although I only have as much business sense as a wildebeest at…

A comic —

The key to writing engagingly — Sometimes I read a piece of writing that sounds so stiff that the writer must have slipped on a banana-stuffed eel and landed butt-first on a broomstick: John Herbert Smith is a professional writer with extensive experience in writing both fiction and nonfiction, whose prose has been widely recognized as…