I’ll Write When Life Settles Down

January 30, 2012

  I'll Write When Life Settles Down   by Jody Calkins   "Things are busy right now. I’ll just wait to write until the things that are happening in my life start to settle down." Is that you? That used to be me. I used to think that when life settled down, I would have [...]

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10 Tips for Creating a Likeable Website

January 26, 2012

  10 Tips for Creating a Likeable Website   by Jody Calkins   Writing for the web is a whole different art from writing for print, especially when it comes to company websites. Before you decide what to put on your website, you need to consider the type of service you provide and what information [...]

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5 Reasons to Use Outlines for Our Writing Work

January 23, 2012

  5 Reasons to Use Outlines for Our Writing Work   by Jody Calkins   Outlines are great. They can be as long or as short as we want them to be. They don't mind if we use them or not. They won't talk back… Okay, with all silliness aside, outlines have a valuable purpose [...]

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Top Two Tweaks for Better Blog Posts

January 19, 2012

  Top Two Tweaks for Better Blog Posts   by Jody Calkins   There is a lot that goes into writing a great blog post, or any written document for that matter, far more than we can discuss here. It would probably take several books to cover every nuance of a great blog post. But [...]

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3 Never-Fail Ways to Create Blog Post Ideas

January 16, 2012

  3 Never-Fail Ways to Create Blog Post Ideas   by Jody Calkins   If you’ve been following Sandi Krakowski for a while, you know that you should be posting two articles to your blog every week. For those of us who struggle to come up with post ideas, this can seem like a daunting [...]

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5 Tactics to Staying Positive When You Write

January 12, 2012

5 Tactics to Staying Positive When You Write   by Jody Calkins   When you’re sitting in front of your computer screen waiting for the right words to come out, it can get discouraging. The words don’t come out just right, the topic is weak, the flow is disorganized.   Then that self-doubt sneaks in. [...]

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How to Keep Your Passion Strong For the Message You Need to Share With the World

January 9, 2012

  How to Keep Your Passion Strong For the Message You Need to Share With the World   by Jody Calkins   There’s a lot we can learn from building a fire. In order to get it going, you need some essential materials. Without them, the fire won’t start. Now the trick to keeping a [...]

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Dragging Yourself to Pen & Paper

January 5, 2012

  Dragging Yourself to Pen & Paper   by Jody Calkins   Making ourselves sit down to write can be a bit of a chore, especially when we have a history of not knowing what to write. And it’s easy for our enthusiasm for writing to falter. When words don’t flow right, when we try [...]

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A New Year for New Writing Goals

January 2, 2012

  A New Year for New Writing Goals   by Jody Calkins   With the start of the new year officially in session, it's time to make sure your writing goals are set. If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that I always recommend having a plan ahead of time. It just [...]

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What It Really Takes to Be a Writer

December 29, 2011

  What It Really Takes to Be a Writer   by Jody Calkins   There's just something about writing that makes us write. Even through all the muck, we keep on writing. When we're not writing, we feel like we should be.   But it's easy to push our writing dreams aside; writing is hard, [...]

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