It is done! Your book, your article, your course, your product. After all your hard work, blood, sweat, and tears, the thing is finished. Now, it’s time to sell it. Get people to buy it. Read it. Adopt it. It’s time to find clients, find an audience, find rabid fans. In other words, it’s time to self-promote. Did you just die a little inside when you heard those words? Did your heart skip a beat and your body temperature drop as a cold shiver snaked up your spine?

This could change your writing life for the better.

A healthy dose of skepticism can be extremely useful, but when you mix that up with paranoia, you are setting yourself up for failure. Doubting yourself before you even start, asking yourself questions that inhibit you from writing your best blog posts, that’s a recipe for disaster. Yet, we all do it. What? Don’t you?

A few weeks back I discovered another nugget of useful info that I picked up while blogging and just assumed everyone know, and today I would like to share it with you.

So I have previously published pieces about the advantages of Medium (here) and later published a piece about the advantages of using it as a syndication platform, which mostly still stands...

It wasn’t long ago that millions of people knew every detail of Heather Armstrong’s life. Armstrong rose to fame after she started the blog Dooce.com in 2001. It amassed a cult following for its sharp, witty, and unapologetic look at motherhood’s tribulations, from breastfeeding and diaper changing to the mountains of homework and carpool runs. She opened up about the unspeakable, like which parts of parenthood she despised and why she had left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (commonly known as the Mormon Church). Dooce also extensively covered mental health, with Armstrong chronicling her ongoing struggle with depression.

Who you are around your family is probably a little different than who you are around your significant other — and both are different than who you are alone, when you’re dancing in your underwear to Backstreet Boys. But with your blogging career, you are only your brand: when you’re writing, when you’re designing your site, and especially when you’re on social media. Social media is vital to any blogger’s success. Just as the great rivers of the world collect their strength from a bunch of creeks and streams, your social media presence is a collection of your individual channels

The reasons why I decide to move my personal blog from WordPress to Netlify

Not a week goes by when I don’t get an email or a phone call with an “I don’t know what to write about” statement from an author. Some who are in the newbie realm; others who have been publishing for years. The subject could be a blog. Adding to the ezine. Or gulp, a new book.

Learn how to capitalize your headlines with the options presented in this post. We look at the most common ways headlines are capitalized

I didn’t want to be a writer. I loved reading and had read four digits’ worth of books by the time I was 10. I loved making stuff up and writing it down, especially if it would make people happy. But I didn’t believe I could actually be a writer. Not because I couldn’t express myself, but because I’d end up with my commas in the wrong place. I was wrong.

Spring is that time of year when everything is fresh and new and clean. Except your blog. It hasn’t changed.……

ow do you get more readers? While the first (and most obvious) answer is to write quality content, the truth is that networking with other bloggers, especially if they are in the same niche as you, is essential to getting more readers. And doing all that is as simple as commenting on their blog posts.

There is that wonderful scene in Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner is urged to “build it and they will come”. What if you do that, and they don't come?

It's been 6 months since the start of my blogging journey so I felt like reflecting on what I learned so far, hopefully helping someone out in the process.

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Focus on your goals, plan for them, take action, track lessons learned.

Writing nonfiction involves much more than just presenting the facts! From your opening lines to the language you use, these nonfiction writing tips will help you learn how to tell a true story in a creative way.

Zero in on what distribution channels make the most sense for your goals and how to create high-performing content for them.

Rejection is painful, and there's no avoiding it as a writer. But you don't have to submit before you're ready to deal with it. Author Shana Scott explains.