Making writing work for you

Making writing work for you

In my recent book, Making Writing Work for You, I mentioned in the final chapter that writing is cathartic or therapeutic. I briefly mentioned that as a teen I would write about my failures at dating girls, my failures at getting my stories published, failures in...
Anyone can become a top performer.

Anyone can become a top performer.

In my latest book, Making Writing Work for You, I suggest that even if you have an innate talent for writing, you must work just as hard to develop it. I’m convinced that anyone can become a great writer with sufficient perseverance, and purposeful practice. Daniel...
Rejections are the battle scars of writers.

Rejections are the battle scars of writers.

I think I would have been more successful in my writing career if I hadn’t had the grandiose idea of submitting material to the top paying publications such as Reader’s Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Chatelaine. Few things are more de-motivational than rejection....
Keep your writing short, simple, and understandable

Keep your writing short, simple, and understandable

This article is a follow up to the last blog article titled “Keep your communication clear and concise.” It offers more examples of brevity in writing by eliminating needless words. Take the example of someone setting a “new record” in pole sitting. I have never heard...
Keep your communication clear and concise.

Keep your communication clear and concise.

It’s the message in your email, the story in your novel, and the information in your article or nonfiction book that is important to the reader. So, make them as clear and concise as possible. One way of doing this is to avoid converting verbs into nouns. Free the...