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To Sustain Your Mental Health, Schedule Time for News and Worrying, and Be Proud of Your Work
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Learn a New Skill Today the ASJA Way
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ASJA Opens 2025 Awards April 1 and Welcomes Your Entries
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Mining Your Life for Content
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How Meditation Can Help Your Writing
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Last time I looked, LinkedIn had 1,583,987 groups. I belong to 22 of them. Each…
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Why Pro Writers Should Rock A Tagline
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It seems everyone has a Smartphone. Everyone but me. I’m holding out. I know the…
Inverse Wisdom for Authors
I came home from college after my freshman year and announced to my Mom that…
The Assignment That Saved My Life
“The Heart Fitness Test That Can Save Your Life” was, I’m reasonably certain, the first…
What Happens if the President Chews Gum? Or, Editors Hate Characters That Resemble Cardboard Cutouts
As a development editor, I come across many manuscripts that introduce every character with a…
Corporate Publishing vs. Traditional Freelancing: Author, Prepare Thyself
With freelancers bemoaning the present state of journalism, I can only offer the salvation that…
Wacky Writing Rituals: What's Yours?
It’s rumored that Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserablés in the nude (apparently he instructed his…
The Play's the Thing
During downtime from writing for the education market, I sometimes vary my time by working…
The 30-Minute Novelist
Novels, when abandoned, begin to stink. A journalist with a desk piled high with work…
Managing the Business Side of Your Freelance Career — Online
The freelance life comes with plenty of benefits. It also comes with the hassles of…
How to Organize Your Notes for a Round-Up Before You Tear Out Your Hair
Online publications such as travelandleisure.com and yahoo.com have always included round-ups and slideshows, but these…
It’s Never Too Late
Recently, there was a feature article in my local paper about an 80 year old’s…
So You Want to be a Foreign Correspondent
While serving an extended stint as president of the São Paulo Foreign Correspondents Club back…
Don’t Make These Mistakes that First-Time Self-Published Authors Make
I get a lot of authors coming to me for self-publishing advice and these are…
I Turned a Book Into a Health Technology Business
Single, with teenage daughters, I had to make a decision. Receive 10 percent royalties on…
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The main reason some of us became freelancers – which I’ve been full-time, again, since…
Freelance Writing Meets Online Education: How to Get Involved
The incredible growth of online education represents the largest financial opportunity for freelance writers in…
Pitfalls of Negotiating Your Own Book Contract
After hearing multiple friends talk about the benefits of having a literary agent when negotiating…
How the most successful writers (and others) schedule their days
I’ve spent the past several years writing about time management. I’ve studied the schedules of…
Getting Started in Science Writing
Science. It’s a word that strikes fear in some people’s hearts—and delight in others’. I’m…
Giving the Purity Test to Nonprofit News
“Non-profit news” has a special ring to it, an Ivory Soap patina of “99 and…
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When it comes to ghostwriting, one of the most challenging aspects of writing the manuscript…