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Gifts for Young Writers
If you are a young writer looking for gift ideas to give your family and friends, or a seasoned writer wondering what the young people like these days, you’ve come to the right place. If a young writer aspires to write as a hobby or even a career, this list will help...
WordGigs Review — Is It Worth It? (2022)
When it comes to finding writing gigs, there are a million places to choose from. You might be looking for a WordGigs review and trying to figure out whether you should go through the application process to become a freelance writer for their site. This WordGigs...
Obsidian Review — Is It Worth It? (2022 Review)
For anyone who keeps in touch with the productivity space, you've probably heard of Obsidian. If you're looking for an Obsidian review, you've come to the right place. If you don't know, Obsidian is a writing tool that can help you put your writing together and link...
The Top 3 Ways to Make Writing Habits Stick
So you’ve recently managed to get into a good writing routine. Perhaps this wasn’t easy for you. It’s not easy for most of us! There’s often a lengthy gap between the initial desire to become a consistent writer and adopting the habits and practices needed to make it...
“You know you are a writer when…” – 12 Writers Share When They Felt Recognized and Seen
Can’t help but zero in on every grammatical error you see? Analyzing ads in public to figure out if you could write it better? Fighting the urge to red-pen any document that comes in front of you? Yep – if you’re guilty of these then it’s a serious tell-tale sign that...
How To Find Food Writing Jobs — 7 Places to Look
Finding food writing jobs sounds like the dream, right? You get paid to eat or make food and write about it. There are a lot of ways you can write about food. You can write recipes, hunt for recipes based on certain diets, become a food critic, write about the food...
Senior Magazines: 10 Golden Markets That Pay Freelancers
Want to write for senior magazines? It’s a freelance niche you don’t want to overlook. Why? Based on the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there’s an estimated 54.1 million age 65 and older.And that’s pretty golden if you want to get paid to write about...
Literary Magazines That Pay Writers: Pitch These 20 Markets
Want to write creative non-fiction, essays, short stories, or poetry...and get paid? There’s an often overlooked niche for your creative work: literary magazines. If you have a journal of creative work tucked away in a desk drawer, it’s time fetch it. Literary...
How to Get Into Gonzo Journalism
If you wanted to learn about how to get into gonzo journalism or the history behind it, you've come to the right place. Originally credited to Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalism is the style of writing where you're covering a topic or event, but you're mixing your...
4 Easy Side Hustles for Writers
Recently, I did a long post about 11 different side hustles for writers. While the ultimate goal is to make your full-time income as a writer, what happens if you can't make ends meet with your writing? Most of us writers know that our careers go through high and low...
Make Money Writing: How to Make Fast Money from Freelancing
B2B Writing: Land the Best Freelance Jobs with a Great Writing Sample
Every year, companies invest as much as $5.2 billion in a particular kind of marketing that requires a lot of writing: business-to-business (B2B) content marketing. Do these companies write it all themselves? Rarely. Often they’ll get the work done by...
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