Talent is overrated, mental strength is critical.

Here’s a “life-hack” — when someone tells you that your biggest fuck up was probably for the best, don’t believe them. Don’t believe a word of it. No matter what they say, it’s not true — unless they’re actually a part of your project or company or they have a personal reason to want you to win. The fact is, most people are going to want you to fail.

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.”

Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a

How many great TV shows have you discovered in season 3 or later? I started watching Game of Thrones after they had released 5 seasons. Pat Flynn had released at least 100 episodes of his podcast before I even knew he existed. I discovered Hard Core History years after Dan Carlin started producing it. This is such a common experience. There is so much content being produced that we can’t possibly discover it all. So instead we wait for the best content to float to the surface after time. If step one in building an audience is to create great content, step two is to endure long enough to get noticed.

A recent survey by Orbit Media found that bloggers who invest more time in writing their blogs — and also write longer articles– generally have a higher number of readers and interactions. The best SEO results are booked with blogs that are approximately 2,000 words long. However, how do you keep a long read interesting? How do you make sure that your readers don’t just scroll through, or tap out when they are halfway through your article?

These 27 time management tips will make entrepreneurs and managers more productive and help them manage time effectively.

Let's be genuine again.

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse.

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we realize.” – Adam Grant

It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air! But how do you get readers to share the love for your content?

Writer’s block. The most hated words by those who love them more than anything else in the world. Also known as creative bankruptcy.

The five most important things to pay attention to on Twitter if you want to connect with agents, editors, publishers, publications, authors, and freelance writers.

Should you just keep punching those keys and hope for the best? You need a proper strategy, not wishful thinking. When your blog isn’t doing as well as you’d like, take a step back and analyze what you’ve done so far. If you are in need of a plan that will help you win more readers, you first need to understand one reader. Just one. Let’s start with getting to know this reader.

If this sounds like you, never fear! CEM is here, with ways to spark new blog ideas regardless of your industry. We’ve used the months of the year for season-specific inspiration. So, put away your thinking cap and find your next blog idea…right here!

Great news! You can be a creator. Follow these steps to find your inner writer, composer, finger-painter, chef, lyricist, entrepreneur or professional Tweeter.

Comedian, writer, and actor Yassir Lester on finding the rhythm that works best for you, and being comfortable with letting ideas go.

Instagram has known about the popular meme account for years — and done nothing about it.

On average, it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds for someone to get back on task once interrupted.

Overthinking is one of the biggest things that holds writers of all levels back. Yep, even seasoned writers overthink new ideas. Especially if it’s a new genre or medium. But experimenting in new genres and mediums is one of the best ways to flex your writing muscles in the same way that when you try a new piece of gym equipment, you exercise different parts of your body.

Guardian Australia has just published its first automated article but reporters fear not – you’re still needed for a while yet.

Your blog needs to have a strategy for building your own audience. You need to map out a smart strategy and pursue this in a purposeful manner. You may need to do some experimentation to find what works for you, but there is no time like the present.

Small wins are important steps and should be treated as such, not overlooked.

How much do you procrastinate? How much time do you waste on crap that doesn’t matter, that you don’t care about, that you don’t even want to be throwing your precious seconds, minutes and hours on? I’m guessing a lot.

Random House’s copy chief confronts three persistent, unnecessary rules about good writing.

Fast, accurate and no typos! Bloomberg News, The Washington Post and The Associated Press test out machine-generated journalism.

Dr Yang Hengjun is that rare combination of a scholar superbly trained in China and the West.

George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed.

The impact of the deeper-than-expected multi-day cuts to BuzzFeed continue, with more layoffs being announced via tweet, with more of today’s seeming to come from the buzz side of the operation rather than the news side (which was hit hard on Friday).

The founder of Girls Who Code shares one of her biggest life lessons: Go ahead and try.

"Promising not to write about her anymore would mean shutting down a vital part of myself, which isn’t necessarily good for me or her."

By Christian Jarrett. Trait self-control and effective strategy use may represent two separate routes to greater persistence.

The clock is ticking louder. And we’re all on time that we borrowed from the universe, and our supply is running out. So what do we do? What do we do, now that we feel we might have wasted more time than we have left?

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

No matter what creative outlet you’ve chosen to pursue, you are your business, so act like it. No one is going to come along and do the work for you.