With over four million blog posts published every day (and that’s just on WordPress!), how do you make yours stand out? Here are 7 creative ways to do that.

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The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.

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Five and a half years ago, my writing career finally seemed on the verge of taking off. I’d just published my first novel, I’d finished writing Publishing E-Books For Dummies, which was to be published by Wiley, and I’d launched an online membership site for writers. Then I got pregnant.

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Time management is important in any line of work, but for the writer, it can be the difference between getting paid or not.

Picture this: You sit down to write, having managed to summon up the last dregs of your energy at the end of a long day … and your housemate pulls up a chair next to you to tell you all about the terrible date they went on the previous night. Or your spouse decides now is the perfect time to talk to you about your holiday plans. Or your teenagers need you to help them finish their homework … right now. Or your kids start bickering – loudly. In those situations, it’s perfectly unders...

A popular travel blogging couple have been slammed for dangling precariously out of a moving train in Sri Lanka for an Instagram photo.

When I wrote my first book in 2013, I was newly married and working a full-time job. While writing, that dream of every writer’s heart whispered to me every morning: What if this is what you could do to make a living? As I’d done for decades, I silenced that voice of hope with a quick and definitive, “Yeah, right. Nobody’s even going to read this thing.”

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A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception

“Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you sleep.” — Napoleon Hill

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The independent blog has been in decline for years. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why you should start a blog in 2019—and host it yourself.