Lunar Year of the Horse 2014

Articles

Making It as an Online Affiliate Marketer

If you listen to the most popular writing theories, one of the best known, is that if you want to make more money, you need to write your own ebooks and sell them online.
And while that’s almost true, not every writer wants to tackle book-length projects. Continue reading…

Don't Think - Write

A Guest Article By Rob Parnell

Do you ever have those days when you're feeling muzzy and unmotivated?
You know how it is. Sometimes you feel you should write, but you don't feel like it. And even if you did, you're plagued by the thought you can't think of anything to write about.
Or maybe you know you have an important scene or an article to write and you can't find the necessary impetus to get you started. Continue reading…

Making Yourself Work

A Guest Article By Leo Babauta

One of the biggest problems you need to solve if you work for yourself is how to make yourself do work.
The best entrepreneurs have figured it out and just pound out the work they need to do.
But many others put off their dream careers, or stay in jobs they like, because they’re afraid to figure this out. Continue reading…

The Real Reason You’re Not Writing

If you’re like a lot of other people, you want to be a writer. Or at least you think you do.
You think to yourself “If only I had the time to write” but you never seem to even have 5 minutes a day to spare.
But the truth is, if you’re not writing, then there is probably a deeper reason that has nothing to do with time constraints. Continue reading…

I Want to Be a Writer But What Can I Write?

This is a question that comes up all the time.
There are even several Google searches about this that I can see in my control panel of my website from the search terms that people used to get to my website.
And I always wonder why anyone needs to ask this question. Continue reading…

How to Reduce Spam in Your Inbox

One of the difficult things to deal with when you work online is spam.
My inbox sometimes gets inundated with it.
It’s not only annoying to see my inbox fill up with junk every morning, it takes time to deal with them. Continue reading…

Are You A Writer?

Over the years I’ve come across so many people who say they are writers but they aren’t. They’re people who think that being a writer means not having a job and staying at home every day. Continue reading…

Imitate the Greats Instead of Re-Inventing the Wheel

Sometimes, it's easy to waste time trying to come up with a completely new idea of what to write about.
It's a noble thing to want to be the first to have a great idea, write it out and then publish it. The problem though, is that most of the great ideas have already be thought about and written about. Continue reading…

The 2 Hour Writing Challenge

There’s a buzzword that writers like to talk about when it comes to writing and that word is procrastination.
Oh yes, writers love to go on and on about procrastination and how it holds them back and how much they have to fight it every day.
But it’s not procrastination. Continue reading…

How to Write an Ebook in 2 Days

You may be asking why do you need to be able to write an ebook in 2 days?
Why so fast?
The answer is simple. So that you can write as many as possible.
We all need to write more to earn more. Continue reading…

How to Write An Article In Minutes

Do you know that it's possible to write a 400 word article in less than 10 minutes, including research and proof reading?
This means that you could write as many articles as you want without spending hours doing research or suffering the dreaded 'blank page.' Continue reading…

The Simple Method For Speeding Up Your Writing Process

There is only one reason why it takes you a long time to write anything.
You waste time.
There's a saying that we allow the work we have to do, to fill the time we have to do it. That's why people who work 8 hours a day, take 8 hours to do their work because they have to fill the 8 hours they're given so they stretch the work out to fit it. Continue reading…

3 Simple Steps to Writing Quickly

What is the one thing that stops you from sitting down and writing?
If you're like most writers it's fear of the dreaded "blank page."
There's nothing more off-putting that not knowing what you are going to write, or worse, not having a clue how to begin or how to write it. Continue reading…

3 Fast Ways to Make Money Writing

In an ideal world it would be great to sit and write one best seller after another, and get a movie contract offer for each book.
In the real world, that’s unlikely to happen. And even if it did, the money wouldn’t be instant because books take time to write, especially epic novels. Continue reading…

How To Get Great Ideas Then Find Even More

I love getting great ideas for writing. I love it when I suddenly get a brilliant thought that will make a great article, eBook or story.
Whenever I do, I grab my ideas book and write down what I’m thinking, and I usually find that once I start putting my idea down on paper, even more ideas start exploding into life inside my crazy, monkey mind. Continue reading…

How I Re-Organised My Time to Write More

It's not always easy to sit at home and work as a writer because there's no one to tell you what to write or when to write it, so you have to be able to manage your own time schedule.
And it can be harder to do than you think.
I've made plenty of mistakes myself and I'll tell you my worst time management problem and how I solved it. Continue reading…

Success Leaves Clues

Tony Robbins is one of the greatest motivational speakers and personal development gurus of our times and it was he who coined the phrase “Success Leaves Clues.”
But what did he mean? Continue reading…