“Now” is and always will be the best time because there’s a massive shortage of true creativity. To be honest, people will never stop copying one another. Follow me for a second..

I love to blog. For over seven years my blog has followed me through my life, marking meaningful events and shifts in my thinking. It has at times felt like a home where my mind goes to meditate even when I am not actually writing. It feels like so much a part of me...

There’s an idea that starting a blog is harder than it used to be. That there used to be a way to write a few words, slap it online and wait for the traffic to roll in. I call BS. It’s not that it’s not true exactly - but that kind of thinking is living in the shadow of the Digg homepage. I’d like to propose a new mental model for blogging - small b blogging. Let me show you what I mean.

Last night I asked Twitter and Facebook to give their tips for avoiding blogger burnout. Below are their responses, as well as some tips of my own!

I made a pretty aggressive video about this the other day for LinkedIn.

It’s a Thursday afternoon, and I’m a teaching a group of restless sixth graders some of the finer points of English grammar. As you can probably guess, this isn’t the easiest task in the world. Several of the students are beginning to whisper back and forth to each other and laugh under their breath. Two others are absorbed in drawing pictures on their worksheets. Another looks like he’s about to fall asleep. I realize I only have a few minutes before I lose complete control of the class.

Ever had writer’s block before? I’m sure everyone who writes has been down that road before.

If you’re building a business online, you should seriously consider starting a podcast to get a leg up over the competition. Here’s why.

Don’t self-sabotage your brilliant blog post with a headline like this...

Blogging isn’t for everyone, but writing is.

I had just finished my last 4th-grade essay, and I couldn’t wait to show my teacher. “I’m finally done, Mrs. Anderson.” “Oh, great job,” she said as she grabbed the 2-gigabyte flash drive from my hand. “Let’s review it one last time.” Everything was going smoothly. I could see her cursor gliding across my introductory sentences, never stopping to make changes. “Perfect,” I thought. “I must’ve done somethin righ…” The sound of a mouse click interrupted my thoughts. I returned my focus in time to see Mrs. Anderson’s hand hovering over her ‘Backspace’ key with 60% of my introduction highlighted. And then she f*cking pressed it.

I have a confession to make.. I care about my page views too much. In fact, I tweeted about it two days ago and was quite proud of my accomplishments. But then I woke up the next day, and I realized something..

For Thoreau it was Walden, for Yeats Innisfree, but many writers covet a creative space, be it a refuge in nature or a shed at the bottom of the garden

Many people reach out to me and want to know how I got to write for so many of the top publications on the internet.

’tis the season for writing long, authentic, read-worthy captions.

Well, melee. Dust-up? Minor inconvenience? But it's coming!!

Recently, I was talking to a friend who was feeling disappointed with her blog posts. She’d publish a post, and all she’d hear were crickets. Even after promoting her posts, hardly anyone was commenting or sharing her articles. Most of us writers know what that feels like.

Blogs continue to be an effective platform for communicating your science to major stakeholders — and the public.

Writers regularly receive dangerously incorrect advice on how to write for SEO. To protect your site from Google penalties and ensure your writing is appropriate for modern SEO standards, Rand outlines outdated practices and a brief 5-step writing process for 2018.

I write this to you now in the midst of a horrible writing burnout.