Having even a half decent, mostly complete outline is better than nothing Remember back in high school when you had to write your first term paper? After all the organizing with index cards, after all the lessons on research, after working on your topic, what did your (dreaded) English teacher tell you to do? Write…
Not all the time, but it will happen. And it’s okay. One of the best pieces of advice experienced writers give new writers (and remind each other) is to write every day. Every. Single. Day. One of the barriers to writing every single day is thinking that all that content, all those words, will to…
And a few extra tools and tips thrown in for good measure When I wrote my post about creating an ebook in a weekend, I glossed over the tools I used in the process. Creating content in the 21st century has as much to do with the tools you use as the content itself. Writing has…
I used to be right there testing beta versions of WordPress. Even on this, my live, production site. I’ve been out of that habit for a while, but I keep hearing about Gutenberg and how it’s going to be the next editor. And it’s really different. Thanks to Morten I’m trying it out. His video…
How hard could it be to publish an ebook in a couple days? Actually, not that hard. As I’ve been freelancing more, I’ve been thinking how to get more business—a rather important part of the whole freelancing thing. A lot of people have downloadable giveaways like templates, worksheets, and ebooks on their sites. I figured…
SaneBox and Spark bring me close to email nerdvana Yes, yes Slack is awesome. Basecamp is killer and I love Asana. All of these tools are designed to reduce the amount of email we send and receive. Except it hasn’t worked out that way. I still get a lot of email from people, especially for…
10 things a geek dad would like to have that isn’t a tie Photo by Juliane Liebermann on Unsplash Not that many of us wear ties any more. I don’t think I’ve had to regularly wear a tie to work—ever. I know that there are as many kinds of geek dads are kinds of dads and geeks out…
It’s not the years under my belt, it’s how I relate to my audience I recently let the cat out of the bag that I’ve ramped up my freelance writing practice. If I’m honest with myself, I’m most happy when I’m writing and writing about technology. But that’s not the whole picture. When I started…
In which our hero, revamps his neglected website, imports content from Medium, and says: “F*ck it, I like being a writer”. I’m back in the freelance writing and content game. Hit me up. I buy ink by the barrel. From the day I started looking I resisted going back to freelance work. I took on…
You see the mountain you need to climb, now how do you get there? “A woman on a ledge high over a wooded valley” by Mike Wilson on Unsplash Let’s get the whole goal-strategy-tactics definition out of the way first. Lots of people mess this up and it’s essential to get this right out of the gate….
