The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Almost) eleven years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. Long-term listeners/readers know I have been talking about ‘the shadow book’ for years now, and that is a similar project. As I discuss in How to Write a Novel , I am a discovery writer. I follow the urging of the Muse.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph: Okay, well, you know how superheroes have origin stories, I have a very strange writer origin story. I had finished reading something, a thriller by a fairly popular thriller writer at the time, and absolutely hated it. But I know you as an indie writer. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 16, 2024

What are some of the common fears that writers face? In the intro, How to avoid indie author scams [ ALLi ; Writer Beware ]; Financial strategies and mindset [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Apple Intelligence at WWDC [ The Verge ; Marketing against the Grain]; “Not a chef, but an emotion creator.”

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Granted, some of those “Medium” searches could be for the TV show of the same name that starred Patricia Arquette from 2005 through 2011. Writers who stepped away for a season, but are making a comeback. You can also use it for projects and e-commerce stores, which isn’t something the other free platforms can claim. Yours truly.

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Express Writers

MAY 29, 2024

The year was 2011. Power Up Your Guide with Examples and Media One of the main traps guide writers fall into is being so focused on having all the written content they need that they end up with a text block. Trust us — we care about each and every one of our clients’ content projects. Here’s another example.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Sign up for my new Kickstarter: www.JFPenn.com/bloodvintage Lessons learned from 13 years as a full-time author entrepreneur Thirteen years ago, in Sept 2011, I left my day job to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. I have a folder in my Books drive with 22 different projects, some just initial ideas, others with research.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Joanne: So I've always written and made up stories, like most writers, really. Then I began publishing chapters of it on a blog back in, I think, about 2011. Early in 2012, after I got my first Kindle and read about self-publishing in the writers magazines that I used to buy, I decided to take the plunge.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2018

Links and Resources for From Passion Project to Over $100,000 in Advertising Revenue. She has grown that blog, which started as a passion project, with no real intent of making money. It’s a total passion project. I was a freelance writer from my paid work. Orlando Night Guide. Start a Blog Course. Facebook Group.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Check Writer Beware for years of them, most of them prior to generative AI. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

We are only at the beginning of the opportunities of AI for wider society as well as for creativity and art, and it’s important that authors, writers, and other creatives be involved in order to shape the future as we want it to be. The development of photography might be the closest comparison to where writers are now. To do the work.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

And I think as I've grown up and become a writer, it's just the adult version of talking to yourself in lots of ways. So that led to my next kind of major project, which was a series of short stories set in Nepal. But that wasn't till about 2011 it really started to accelerate this interest in her. They're seeing everything.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well. Today, we're talking about her first non-fiction book for authors, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

You see it all the time with TV shows and other creative projects that, it just goes from bad to worse and people are so attached, and they just can't let go. I think it is the best social network because it's got the thinkers and the writers in abundance there and all of that, but I just can't cope with the drama, the Musk factor.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 14, 2024

Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn KimBoo York is the author of romance, fantasy, and nonfiction, as well as a productivity coach, and a podcaster at The Author Alchemist and Around the Writer's Table. So I did eventually get published by a small indie publisher in 2011. So welcome, KimBoo. Joanna: I love this.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2018

Clients can view and interact with shared dashboards, collaboration tabs, and reports, while staff — e.g., writers or social media managers — can alternate between open and closed conversations. Since its 2011 launch, Scoop.it! On Zoho, for instance, you can set roles with corresponding access and permissions. Click to enlarge.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 7, 2024

The discussion covers Penn’s background in theology, influences from authors like Clive Cussler and Dan Brown, and her journey from a corporate job to becoming a full-time writer. And I was like, do you know what, maybe I could make a career as a writer. I wrote the first book, Stone of Fire in 2009, and then published in 2011.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When I started what was to be my content marketing journey in 2011, I had NO idea what kind of explosive growth was in store. The most common outsourced role for content marketing is writers ( 81% ), making it one of the most valuable and relevant marketing skills. billion in 2020 and is projected to increase to $17.9

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Men With Pens

JULY 15, 2012

I, in return, was calm, clear, and polite, carefully getting the information I needed to complete her project, and ignoring her insulting manner. At the job’s conclusion, she told me there was more cash on the table and offered me a second project. I remember what happened when the project was over. I flatly refused.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2011

Being a writer isn’t just about knowing how to construct a great sentence or how to format a blog post so that readers can engage easily. Being a writer is about sharing your thoughts, ideas and experiences with the world. Surrounding yourself with other writers (try a meet-up or a library). Your opening won’t be strong enough.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

And the idea was that they would encourage their employees to spend up to 20% of their time on basically more speculative projects, things that were outside the scope of their official responsibilities. And I often stress there are multiple streams of income that business and entrepreneurial writers have.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2012

For many writers, getting stuck in a phase of writer’s block can seem like the worse experience imaginable. Here I am, a supposed writer, and I can’t come up with anything to write. How can I even call myself a writer if I am struggling like this? For long writing projects, there’s nothing better. DarkRoom (PC).

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 18, 2012

This was the most valuable part – a complete writing system, an approach that could be used to take any project from start to finish. Then I landed a new project that paid $1,000 – a decent sum. Again I used the Damn Fine Words approach, and completing this project was easy. I thought I was a decent writer a year ago.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

They don’t know whether you’ve just finished a year-long project or just opened your freelancing business. Or how it lets you work on your own projects. Don’t have any client work or projects? Charities and foundations are always in need of writers. You gotta fake it ‘til you make it, that’s what!

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Bramework

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Google’s updates consider factors like: Mobile-friendliness Site speed Link quality, and Engagement metrics 2024 Blog Post Checklist Cheat Sheet to Rank Every Time The Panda update in 2011 penalized thin or scraped content. Influencer marketing spending was projected to reach $15 billion by 2022. Influencers will proliferate.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2012

There comes a point in every freelance writer’s career where he simply can’t take it any more. Here’s a quick lists of a library’s virtues for a writer. The only way it makes sense is if two conditions are true: You have a time-sensitive project. Libraries also make wonderful work environments.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Then comics are really expensive, and they take forever, so I started writing books in the interim between comic projects. Is that why you favored graphic novels and why you still do a lot of very visual projects? Do you think you're much more of a visual person than a lot of the text-based writers? Russell: Sure.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him. Ryan Holiday.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2011

As writers, we rely on our unique ability to convey the visual world in words. You think you’re writing project is hard? I’m Steff, a legally blind writer and blogger. As a writer, you can’t be half-assed, you can’t be wishy-washy. As writers, we’re eternally curious.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

Writing a fiction book makes you a better freelancer, and here’s why: You’ll be a much better writer. My blog posts, articles, and writing projects have all benefited from my fiction writing experience – that means I’m better at communicating with people and clients who bring me income. You’ll be much more organized.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I’m a full-time freelance writer with a travel blog as a side project. I’d started the blog as a passion project. This habit means my blog is no longer a side project I feel guilty for neglecting, but rather an active, thriving blog with a steadily growing readership. My blog used to make me feel sad and discouraged.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2012

Every writing project goes through the same stages: Idea Generation. They might not be expert writers, but they can tell you when you haven’t explained something clearly enough or when you’ve gone off on an unnecessary tangent. So what should you do? Here are 4 simple ways to create a well-written ebook: 1: Follow the Writing Process.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

Too often, we writers fob reviews off as easy content. And being loud, opinionated writers, we’re quite fond of judging. A review tests the writer’s skill at persuasion and description. “Bathory’s Blood Fire Death is a groundbreaking album – a one-man project of Quorthon, who is now dead.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2011

Writers aren’t known for their planning and scheduling skills, after all – but nail deadlines, and you’ve turned yourself away from flaky and straight onto fantastically competent. You’re a writer, not a warrior! You’re a good writer. Just focus on the project at hand. knows that very well.

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Men With Pens

MAY 27, 2012

She had just returned from instructing a gaggle of writers at a workshop. “Do That,” she said, “is when you know you’re a writer. It doesn’t mean that what you’re doing isn’t worthwhile or that you’re a crappy writer or that you’re an ungrateful buffoon. Oh, how I would love to write “The End” after that sentence. Yes,” I said.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Do you know of someone that has really stood out in 2011? Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough. Maria Popova. Kristi Hines.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 7, 2011

So when she sent me this guest post that outlines some of her learning curve lessons as a new freelancer, I was thrilled – here was someone who’d gone from zero to being a confident writer who could stand up for herself, and for her business. “If I give you more projects, can I get a discounted hourly rate?&# from Lisa – enjoy!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2012

After all, writing ebooks are typically known as huge, long projects, right? Post by Ali Luke Ali Luke has written a bunch of her own ebooks ( several are available free ) and has worked to help other writers with many more. Well, you can. Even if that means you need to let go of your rigid blogging schedule.)

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