No matter who you are or where you work, writing about your pursuits is a great way to build your community and establish a name for yourself. But if you’re someone who has never written a blog post in your life, how do you go about consistently writing something new every day? This post discusses…
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The Productive Writer: an Interview with Alexis Grant
Alexis Grant is an entrepreneurial writer and digital strategist. She’s founder of The Write Life, a website that focuses on how to make a living as a writer. She also offers a number of ebooks and courses on her own site, AlexisGrant.com. She’s worked as a journalist for publications like U.S. News & World Report…
The Productive Writer: an Interview with Author Dee Romito
Dee Romito is the author of the middle grade novel Summer Bucket List, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2016. She is also a teacher and freelance writer who specializes in educational writing. Romito blogs about writing at I Write for Apples, where she and others share tips to help writers of children’s…
The Productive Writer: an Interview with Joe Warnimont
Joe Warnimont is a fiction and freelance writer who creates tools and resources to help other writers get more productive and market their work. We were delighted when Warnimont, a Coach.me user himself, agreed to share some of his thoughts about habits and personal development. What’s your own daily routine like? What habits do you…
Resilient Activism and Productive Writing: the Habits of Derrick Jensen
Photograph by Dawn Paley. Derrick Jensen is the award-winning author of over 20 books and has written for Orion, Audubon, The Sun, and many other magazines. Jensen makes a compelling argument that civilization is inherently unsustainable: “To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is…
Writing Habits of a Cyborg: an Interview with Gareth Branwyn
“Don’t be afraid to just get your thoughts out there. Unvarnished. Don’t fear the blank page. You can edit what comes out into something usable.” Gareth Branwyn tells people he’s a cyborg, and he’s not kidding: decades of medical procedures have made him part man, part machine. But that’s not terribly unique. Lots of people…