Yes, writers need soft skills in addition to word counts — Getting more people to click on our writing is the holiest of holy grails. We all want to reach it. And sustain it. What’s the point of toiling for hours with nothing to show for your effort? Success as a writer pushes you to achieve more success. You must pay…

For all you new writers just starting out, this is for you — How often do you look back on your start as a writer? Once in a while, something forces you to look back on your writing journey. You assess how and where it began and how far you’ve come. You begin to connect the dots and put things in perspective. It’s…

You don’t require much to get started — It takes pretty little to mint money online. The opportunities abound, but grabbing them is the pretty little you have to do. With the power of the internet, you can sit in the comfort of your house and launch a business. Or at least create a product or service that…

If only more writers embraced these truths — Forget the 80–20 principle. In the writing space, it’s more like a 99–1 principle. Only a special class of writers — perhaps the top 1% — enjoy the enviable success metrics of high engagement, respectable earnings, and big contracts. For a start, they have social proof to rely on. This…

How would you like to burst a few bubbles? — These days, it seems we’re all in the self-help industry. We’re either doling out advice or taking doses of advice. While many people give their advice based on their experiences, others only take some of the trusted words of self-help gurus and add a fresh spin. We see that in…

Learn to do it and do it right — Going solo may be fun as a creative, but have you thought about collaborating with others? I’ve spent a few years watching creatives do wild collaborations — writers, marketers, photographers, podcasters, YouTubers. And I’ve seen first-hand the results. They were better than my solo efforts. A well-executed collaboration could change…

Everyone needs these non-negotiables. Have you found yours? — I don’t know any freelancer who doesn’t want to succeed financially. You know of any? Even if you do, don’t buy their crap of not working for money. It costs money to set up as a freelancer — the computer you’ll write on and the power to keep it running…

Learn them and attract the right people to your life — Are you a people magnet? Many of us are not natural people magnets. And that’s okay. But allowing things to stay the same is wrong. The people you attract will open doors for you, hold doors for you to walk in, and connect you to others. They’ll make life easier…

They’re in a class of their own — Entrepreneurship is an ever-evolving challenge. You’ll struggle to keep track of all the many moves to make to stay afloat — let alone thrive. And there is no shortage of experts doling out loads of advice by the day, mostly in books. But which pieces of advice do you keep…