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Category Archives: Writer’s Life
Is Your Writing Ritual in Need of a Refresh?
Some days, you can do everything to set the right mood, but the magic still doesn’t happen. The words are still stuck. So what’s the problem?
Freelancer Availability: Why Less is Better Than More
When you work as a freelancer or own a small business, sometimes it feels like you can’t stop working. You set your own availability, so why shouldn’t you always have time to work? With some slight adjustments, you can have a profitable, fulfilling freelance career without feeling like a commodity.
5 Tangible Ways IT Outsourcing Can Benefit Your Company
When you run a small business, you have to bear the responsibility of multiple roles at once. One of the more challenging roles (depending on your background) is managing your technology system.
Easy Ways to Attract More Clients to Your Website
Your website is more than just a place to host your content. When you offer goods or services, your site becomes an excellent tool to attract more clients. However, it’s not always easy to get people to visit your site. And once you’ve brought them in, they still have to contact you after seeing whatContinue reading “Easy Ways to Attract More Clients to Your Website”
How Brand Reputation Will Make or Break Your Business
Much of your marketing efforts go toward increasing your reach and growing a loyal audience. How your audience feels about you depends on more than offering a quality product or service. As you grow your business, whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or work with others, your brand reputation can make or break your brand.
7 Apps to Support Mental Health
Looking after your mental health is vital, but it’s not always easy. When we feel stressed, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. To support your mental health, there are many digital tools available. Rootd Rootd is an app designed for people who experience anxiety and panic attacks. The app includes several useful features including a breathingContinue reading “7 Apps to Support Mental Health”
Pull In More Customers With These Top Tips
If you have a business without customers, your “business” is really just an expensive hobby. Getting custom is the hardest element of starting a business.
Don’t Let the Void Destroy Success and Other Good Feels
For those who wonder how my actual writing is going, it’s awesome. Really. I might even start talking about it again in between posts on digital marketing. But the important thing is that things are happening. And I’m excited. Even if The Void is being loud.
Develop Without Distraction: 3 Ways to Beat Blogger Procrastination
When you find yourself being distracted by the littlest thing, it stops you from doing something you really want to do. Next thing you know, it’s the end of the day and you’re nowhere near meeting your goal. We all get distracted from time to time. These tips will help you beat distraction and keep it from becoming procrastination.
5 Vital Benefits of Hiring an Expert Consultant
Sometimes, an outside perspective is needed for a business to develop new strategies and plans. Although senior managers can easily execute the ideas, adding extra knowledge can make a significant change.
Remember the Time I Thought I Ruined my Writing Career?
Once upon a time, I took some short stories I wrote for class and thought it would be a great idea to publish them as ebooks. And it didn’t go very well.
Can Business Consulting Help You Succeed?
Business consulting is not just for large companies and corporations. Small businesses also have to deal with complex challenges on a regular basis that require professional solutions.
I Nearly Lost my Only Complete Manuscript Draft
I needed to open an older draft of Thieves to look for a scene I wanted to rework into the new version. This file was totally fine last week when I had it open to pull a different scene. But not today. No, today it was corrupted. And entirely unopenable.
Why I’m Happy I Deleted the Facebook App
Taking Facebook off your phone almost sounds like a crazy thing to do. Bonus crazy points when you factor in how much of my career depends on being active on social media. But I didn’t get rid of my account. I just deleted the Facebook app. And I’m much happier because of it. In the two weeks since I deleted the app, my phone has been blissfully quieter. Not only that, but I’ve been spending less time on my phone.
Switzy Thoughts 