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There is nothing more annoying for a writer than reading a list of rules that another writer has come up with and feeling if you don’t comply with them, that somehow you are failure. It is even more annoying when you try them and they just don’t work for you. What follows are just tips. You have my permission to dismiss every single one as nonsense but I hope you’ll find at least one thing helpful here.

No one is born a master. (That means you.)

The future can be scary, but there are ways to deal with that fear

Set your own deadline based on what you could realistically accomplish if you parked your keister in the chair each day and did your work!

A guide to making positive and lasting changes in your life, written by Tina Essmaker with illustrations by Qiong Li.

Six years after Yahoo purchased Tumblr for north of $1 billion, its parent corporation is selling the once-dominant blogging platform. WordPress owner Automattic Inc. has agreed to take the service off of Verizon’s hands. Terms of the deal are undisclosed, but the number is “nominal,” compared to i…

Sometimes, the most productive thing you can do is walk away

Because “done” is always better than perfect.

Google is waging war on the peddling of magical pills and miracle cures by questionable health sites — and Examine.com seems to have been caught in the crossfire.

Consider this your heads up.