Personal Fulfillment & Solopreneur Productivity Coach | RomCom Novelist
Having trouble staying focused on your work? It happens to the best of us! Try one (or several!) of these 10 ways to boost productivity. >> Get the (free!) Productivity for Solopreneurs training HERE << These tips are for everyone from home-based freelancers to small business owners to worker bees at any size of business—just …
Last month I wrote about how to spend your time wisely when business slows down – but how can you effectively manage your time when business is doing really well? It seems to be the law with freelancing that you either have no work or else you have piles of work! These tips should help …
This is a question that I’m seeing all over the place these days. Should I write several drafts and get friends and family to read my book and ask an editor to just review the final copy? Should I work with an editor right from the beginning stages? Can I show my book to an …
It happens to everyone who owns a business or works as a freelancer – a bunch of work will come flooding in all at once, and then it slows down. And then, happily, it comes flooding in again! It’s easy to get anxious about those slower times and to freeze up out of the fear …
My first time trying NaNoWriMo last year was a complete failure. For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it is held every November. The idea is that you write a 50,000-word novel in the space of one month. An ambitious, yet exciting, prospect, to be sure! So …
Writers, or content creators, might be just the thing you need to enhance your business and to best market your business to your target audiences. Here’s the background you need on why hiring a professional writer could be one of your best decisions. Why does writing matter? Just like with editing, having high-quality writing can …
Most of my friends and acquaintances have jobs where they work 9 – 5 on weekdays. Because of that, I get questions all the time about what it’s like to be a freelancer. Since I adore my freelance life (and my dear friends!), I’m always happy to give them a glimpse into what the freelance …
After discussing the benefits of hiring a professional editor for your work, now it’s time to talk about how having someone to manage your social media platforms can also be incredibly beneficial to improving and promoting your work! Why does social media matter? Social media can include everything from blogging to online newsletters to Twitter …
When you are a business owner and you work from home, it can be challenging to separate your work life from your personal life. When you are your brand, and your hobbies and your work start to overlap, differentiating between your work life and your personal life can seem impossible. Luckily, there actually are ways …
So you have written a manuscript, copy for your website, children’s book, promotional or professional material, newsletter, or just about any other document you can think of – and someone tells you that you should get it edited. But why? Why does editing matter, and what does an editor do? Why does editing matter? Editing …
I have now been a full-time freelance editor and writer for almost three whole months! The time certainly does fly. I have learned a lot in the past few months about being a small business owner, working from home, my own work style, and the freelancing lifestyle in general. So I figured it was about …
I recently returned from the Editors’ Association of Canada conference in Toronto. It was wonderful! I had such a great time: learned a lot during the sessions, got to see plenty of Toronto, and met some lovely people. As with any conference, networking was an important part of this one. I’ve been to a number …
Forget about starting a blog or writing guest posts for blogs—what if you want to have multiple blogs of your own? Before SaganMorrow.com, I had four separate blogs that I wrote for regularly: Living Healthy in the Real World, Living Rhetorically in the Real World, Living Fashionably in the Real World, and Health Writer Eats. I …
“He’ll never catch up!” the Sicilian cried. “Inconceivable!” “You keep using that word!” the Spaniard snapped. “I don’t think it means what you think it does.” That line from Inigo Montoya in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride has become quite famous over the years. And no wonder: most of us, at some point or another, …
What the heck is Twitter, anyway? Do I *really* need it? How can I use it in a way that will be helpful for me? Is it going to take hours upon hours of my time? These are some of the most common questions I hear from non-Twitter-users and from people new to Twitter. Let’s …