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Cash In On Article Writing: Selling Writer Strategies 1: Selling Writer Strategies, #1
Cash In On Article Writing: Selling Writer Strategies 1: Selling Writer Strategies, #1
Cash In On Article Writing: Selling Writer Strategies 1: Selling Writer Strategies, #1
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Want to build a great writing career?

If you're a writer today, you can: 

* Work the hours you choose; 

* Work anywhere you like; 

* Write (almost) what you like; AND 

* Make as much money as you like. 

A great writing career can start with simple articles. 

Here's why. Marketing today is all about content, and content means words, and those words are often in the form of articles.

Wordsmiths have it made. You can get paid for words, more easily than has ever been possible in the history of literature. Words equal content, and today, businesses large and small, as well as publishers, need content to survive.

Build a writing habit -- a simple strategy that turns you into a pro writer

In this book, you'll discover a simple strategy I've taught to many writers since 2005. It works, even if you don't want to write articles and sell them. It works for bloggers, copywriters, and novelists. Here's why: it helps you to build a writing habit.

Ideas and execution: make the most of your ideas, when you discover how to get help from your silent partner

Bestselling authors like Stephen King depend on their subconscious mind to do a lot of the "work" of writing for them. You can too.

This book is for new writers, and for established professionals: start your career, or build a better one.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAngela Booth
Release dateApr 26, 2016
ISBN9781533773975
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    Cash In On Article Writing - Angela Booth

    Chapter One

    Introduction: how to cash in on articles, and build a six-figure writing career


    Want to build a great writing career?

    If you're a writer today, you can:

    * Work the hours you choose;

    * Work anywhere you like;

    * Write (almost) what you like; AND

    * Make as much money as you like.

    Here's why. Marketing today is all about content, and content means words, in some form or another.

    Wordsmiths have it made. You can get paid for words, more easily than has ever been possible in the history of literature. Words equal content, and today, businesses large and small, as well as publishers, need content to survive.

    Back in the day, you had to be a writer to make money writing. You had a long apprenticeship where you sold nothing, you just collected rejection slips, and wrote for pay-with-copies magazines.

    Those days are long gone. Today, you can call yourself a writer, write, and get paid. I'm fond of saying that today it's easy to make great money as a writer. That's true. However, that's not to say that it's simple.

    You need to know yourself. You also must be aware that you need to improve your crafting of words, and also know who's willing to buy what you can produce. And, most importantly of all, you need to be willing to hustle: to take aggressive action.

    So, it's easy, but not simple.

    I work with writers every day, and there's just one difference between writers who make six figures a year, and all the writers who don't.

    Can you guess what the difference is?


    Writers who make great incomes show up

    In a nutshell, writers who make great incomes show up. Not only do they show up, they keep on showing up. In a word: they hustle.


    Write — you have to show up at the keyboard (and don't be a perfectionist)

    The great-money writers show up firstly for themselves. That is, they sit their rear end in a chair, or stretch out on a sofa, and they tap the keyboard each day. They also show up for others. They present their writing to people who can buy it… and they don't stop presenting their writing until buyers buy.

    Easy, right? In truth, it couldn't be easier, as long as you're prepared to write every day. You have to write every day, because if you don't, you won't have anything to sell.

    Unfortunately, writers want to make it complicated. Instead of sitting down and writing something, they have 1,001 questions.

    They think that they need answers to those questions: unless they have the answers, they can't write.

    That's completely backward.

    Writers write, no matter what, and most especially, whether they're making money or not. The money can take a while to catch up with you — and if you're not writing, that money will NEVER catch up with you.

    Several times each week, I say to one writer or another: you're over-thinking this.

    It's a common problem. Over-thinking ensures that you never make the money that you could, and should. For this reason, my favorite acronym that I share with writers is: DDT — that is, Do, Don't Think. Avoid writing in your head. Write on the page, even when you know that you MUST have the answers to those 1001 questions.

    Forget answers. Just write.

    If you're not writing, and if writing is hard for you, there's a reason. In a word, perfectionism. The perfectionists don't just want to write their daily stint of words. They want those words to be good. They want fireworks to go off, and guarantees that every golden word they produce is… wonderful.

    It's OK to be a perfectionist — after you've written. After you've written, you can knock your words into shape.

    Write first, because before you can make something perfect, you have to produce something. It's all too easy to write a few words, and think: this is absolute crap, and delete the words. Please, don't delete those words — those words may be necessary, because writing is discovery. When you write those rubbish words, they often lead directly to good words. The rubbish helped you to work out what you wanted to say.

    Every writer has a day or two or even a month or two when they go sour on their writing. They look at their words, mutter to themselves that a donkey could do better, and then they delete the words they just wrote.

    Those months happen — and they're essential. I've worked with many writers, and every breakthrough they achieve seems to be preceded by a dark period. Determined writers keep writing, and then they break through to another level in their writing.

    Writers struggle with another challenge too — they procrastinate.


    Procrastination: what happens if you can't write?

    I coach writers. By the time writers come to me, they're in some kind of trouble. Often, that trouble is: I can't write.

    Writers can be blocked, for various reasons. Perhaps:

    * You've taken on a project you hate, so you avoid writing. Not just on that project, but on other projects too. That poisonous project has infected all your writing;

    * Something bad has happened in your life. You've lost your job, or someone close to you is ill, or you're going through a divorce, or someone has died. You've had huge changes in your life, and you procrastinate on your writing;

    * You've lost confidence. You want to write Project X, but you can't. You tell yourself that you need to take a class, or do more research. You procrastinate until you lose interest in the project;

    * You don't know how to finish a project. This happens to many writers who do NaNoWriMo. They spend November working on a novel. They end up with a bunch of words, and they're not sure what to do with them;

    * You're too busy. You tell yourself every day that you'll write today, but every day something comes up. You end the day without writing anything.

    If you know that you're procrastinating, ask yourself why. If something bad has happened to you, and your life is in turmoil, it's essential to rest… to procrastinate, if you like. You can't

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