YouTube creators are gaining a number of new tools to generate revenue from their videos outside of traditional advertising, as well as those that will help them better engage their fans, according to news the video streaming site announced today at the VidCon conference in Anaheim, California.

What’s your New Year’s resolution? Travel more? Maybe write that book? Perhaps run a marathon? Take up piano again? Start a Side Hustle? “What exactly is a Side Hustle?” I hear you ask. Well, it’s basically a way to generate extra income without quitting your job.

Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company is announcing it will begin allowing users to upload videos up to 1 hour in length, up from the previous 1 minute limit.

Let go of your misconceptions, or your creativity will never breathe. When someone identifies themselves as creative, or tells you that their biggest strength is their creativity, you instantly feel a certain level of respect for them. They’re creative! They take the world and everything in it and have the ability to turn it into something new, wonderful and incredible. We have been hard-wired to believe that people who are creative are better than other people who aren’t.

Repetition is an inevitable part of creation.

According to a study at Offenburg University, 96.5% of YouTubers don’t make enough annual ad revenue to reach the U.S. federal poverty line.

The wonder of the web is that it is not subject to the whims of chaotic corporate management.

Have you ever had a project that felt so impossible that you just want to give up?

Most people came here to write. Most also hope to grow a readership. No one publishes something in the hope that no one ever reads it. But there is something being lost in the process. It’s because “experts” tell you to give 50 claps and leave quick comments, but if those things are not done with respect and care, they aren’t worth jack sh*t. To build an audience, you have to be part of one.

In many, many sources I’ve seen advice along these lines: Don’t overthink, you don’t have to take longer than 1 hour to write a blog post. Just post it! Some advice givers will even say that it’s the norm today. One of the bloggers I follow claims to have written most of her blog posts within 1 hour and … on the phone.

Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside.

And what we don't see.

Being an artist, being a creative, being an entrepreneur, it’s about fighting with yourself to keep playing the game when it all feels hopeless.It’s about making one more gamble, and every time, setting your sights on a win, instead of leaving the table.

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‘This is all I’ve ever wanted. Why am I so unhappy?’

For as long as I can remember, anxiety and I have had a very passionate relationship.

 Facing the fear of criticism – and criticism itself – terrified me. You may be struggling terribly with your blog because you are held captive by this same terror, this same fear, and play small. I struggled horribly for many years online because I feared facing criticism, so I played small, stayed in my cyber cave, and failed.

I get it. There’s never enough hours in the day. Juggling work, friends, family, exercise, time off, Stranger Things is tough.

Why is standing out so dang hard to do? Because we're afraid.

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Almost everyone wants to be a blogger these days and as much I am all for it, some tend to forget that it’s not just creating a website and letting it be, blogging is not a walk in the park but rather lots of hard work, patience and also trial and errors which open up doors to learning even more about the blogging world.

You have a choice. You can tell engaging stories online, or you can let your brand die. There’s no option C.

I am a writer. On any given day, I write somewhere in the ballpark of 10,000 words — and the genres are all over the board. I have a journal for poetry and quick ideas that I keep with me at all times, in my backpack. I aim to write an answer on Quora every day. I write here on Inc Magazine five times a week. When time permits, I will microblog on Instagram. I have a number of book projects in the works. And I am the Founder and Editor in Chief of a ghostwriting + influence agency called Digital Press. I am not exaggerating when I say I spend close to eight hours per day writing. Just writing.

I’ve been writing for over twenty years. Half of that time as a screenwriter, which I failed at. Then the other half as a blogger. After blogging for nearly ten years, I landed my first book deal at the ripe old age of 40.

Writing for the past two years, I’ve learned a great deal about the craft. I’ve been lucky enough to have a mentor who has given me valuable advice like, “Read every day, write in public, read what you write aloud, practice consistently.” But the single-best piece of advice I’ve ever been given as a writer came from one of the greatest writers of our generation, Stephen King, and is something I need to constantly remind myself of.

Warning: This is not for the faint at heart. However, this is how I write blog posts that get an average of 500+ shares and thousands of pageviews every time.

StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end 16 and half years after its launch in 2001. Camp is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to another of his projects, Mix.com, which he says incorporates the lessons learned from StumbleUpon “to take content discovery to the next level.”

We’re faced with a million decisions throughout our lives. Some of these are small, almost insignificant; Do we order a long black today, or a cappuccino? Do we order it from the laneway cafe near home, or try somewhere new? Do we put on the red sneakers or the blue sneakers? But many of the decisions that we face shape the entire course of our lives, and the lives of the people with whom we interact. Those decisions are monumental. They feel almost crushing.

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