When you want to become a published nonfiction writer, it’s easy to end up picking all your writing or blog-to-book project topics by what you think will “sell.” Writing for the market, as they say, does yield results, but it also can cause you to lose enthusiasm for your work. The writing and blogging becomes […]
Get Out of Your Blogging Funk by Making Writing Posts Fun Again
Have you found yourself in a blogging funk? You don’t have blogger’s block, but writing posts feels hard, unpleasant, and a “should” on your to-do list. What’s up with that? After all, you love blogging and dream of publishing your work not just on your website but in books, right? Yet, you just can’t get […]
Where to Find Sources of Inspiration for Your Blog Posts
If you find yourself without blog post ideas, don’t worry. In fact, worry makes it worse! Instead, look around you for inspiration. Today Beth Bauer (@JourneyofBethB) provides seven easily accessible places to find ongoing ideas for your blog posts. Being a blogger isn’t always puppies and rainbows. It can be hard work. Sometimes the words […]
5 Top-Notch Apps to Help Writers or Bloggers Stay Focused, Inspired and Productive
Bloggers and aspiring authors struggle with focus. Distractions abound. And it’s easy to feel unispired or unmotivated. Today, freelance writer and ghostwriter Sanjay Bojan (@sanjaybojan) offers his best picks for apps that help writers stay focused, inspired, and productive. When was the last time you sat down to work on your book manuscript—blogged or otherwise—and […]
10 Ways to Become an Author of Change With a Blog
In a few weeks I’ll be speaking at the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference. This is my favorite conference because it is focused on helping nonfiction writers who want to become change agents get their books published. It’s attended by aspiring and published authors who write about self-help, healthy living, spirituality, human potential, ecology […]
Remain Passionate and On Purpose to Achieve Inspired Blogging Results
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 25 In the last three months, I’ve provided you with 25 blog posts containing 30 tips to help you improve your blog and your blogging skills, as well as your blogged book. If you’ve tried to implement them all in that amount of time, you might feel overwhelmed and […]
New Year, New Look, New Goals
I’m proud to unveil How to Blog a Book’s new design! I hope you like it. It’s cleaner, brighter and aligns with the design of the new How to Blog a Book printed book (which is now available for presale). Plus, it takes the blog to a new level. I have written about starting out […]
Why You Need Passion to Succeed at Blogging Your Book
Most bloggers find themselves concerned with search engine optimization (SEO). Anyone writing for or on the Internet knows they want their writing easily found by search engines—and, therefore, by Internet users looking for the information in their blogs. However, Duane Forrester of Microsoft says most bloggers can use basic SEO skills and find some success […]