Do you sit around waiting for the muse to inspire you? Do you have trouble punching the damn keys? Do you often struggle to stay consistent? Are you looking for that magic trick that will turn you into a blogging…
During my nine and a half years of blogging, I’ve been asked thousands of questions by other bloggers. About content, about networking, about selling stuff. I’ve been asked about my success, about my failures, about my headlines, about my introductions,…
Writer’s block. The most dreaded words in all existence by creatives. Also known as creative bankruptcy, writer’s block is all about a single four-letter word. One that we rarely even want to mention. It’s an “F word” that is frowned…
If there’s one thing I’m quite the expert on, that’s alienating a large, engaged audience. Seriously. I started my first blog back in April 2012. By November the same year, I had over twenty thousand readers. I was earning about…
I believe that an aspiring blogger should, above all else, work towards building the sort of clarity of purpose that enables them to figure out if they should invest a lot of time and energy into creating content and sharing…
It’s not pleasant being the new guy. There’s always a bit of discomfort, a bit of friction when starting something new. And the truth is that, most times, the advice that is out there on the web is kind of…
“It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.” Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins The average age…
I’ve been lucky enough to be a full-time blogger for the past nine years. But… it’s not a walk in the park, not unless that park is somehow called, “Jurassic Park.” It’s not. The bottom of the food chain is…
Here’s a secret I am kind of ashamed to admit. Even though I write at least 100 blog posts every month, I never feel like writing. I’d much rather scroll the day away on social media. But I don’t. How…
In March 1963, American mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz published a paper in which he established the basis of chaos theory. He argued that a tiny change in the initial conditions of a weather model can create a significantly different…
