My passion for writing started at an early age, but my pursuit of writing as a career only started a few years back. I thought I had something interesting to say and I thought I had a unique way of saying it. Over the last few years I have discovered that there is more to [...]

Developing a writing career comes about in similar ways to developing any career. You have to be willing to expand your talents, present your talents and pursue opportunities with boldness to fulfill those talents. Writing opportunities seem to be endless in the online community but finding writing opportunities that will expand your personal [...]

Guest posting on websites in your niche or a related niche can help you build your own website. Most websites desire to build the number of unique visitors that come to the site while maintaining the existing visitors. Writing sound content keeps visitors around but it may not be enough to draw them [...]

Writing must be a priority in my life if I want to expand my writing career. Some days that is just not a possibility. There are too many other things that have to be done for me to get word on written.
Or is that just an excuse?
I recently covered [...]

Every writer I know has hit the send button only to realize that they just sent the query to the right editor with the wrong magazine name or they missed an essential part of the submission requirements. Cyberspace does not deal kindly with such mistakes. There is no getting back what is already [...]

Bible study and other classes can create some of the most inspirational moments in my day. Sometimes I even get the ideas down on paper. There are even those rare moments when the ideas get to leap from the paper to my computer and become legitimate articles.
This last week was one [...]

Develop boldness in your pursuit of your passions. I enjoy asking people what they want to be when they grow up – particularly when they are hitting a milestone like graduating from college or getting advanced training in some field. My comments are partially in jest but I know from experience that a [...]

Time runs out. It seems that no matter how hard I plan or how serious I am about something I eventually run out of hours in the day. Life catches me and spins me around until I am too dizzy to know which way is up and so I forget about the things [...]

The economy has been tough on most everyone and many freelance writers have been hit as well. It can be particularly hard to make ends meet when you aren’t real sure where the ends are. Freelance writers depend on that next gig to get their budgets moving in the right direction. The [...]

Finding the right creative atmosphere to write can be difficult in a house full of people. Sometimes it can be tough writing in perfect circumstances. The key to finding and using the creative spirit is to know how to ignite your muse.
The Where, When and How of Creative Atmosphere

1. Make it easy to write. [...]