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Please welcome Erin Mahoney to This Writer’s Life. She’s one of my private students and the author of Side Hustle Gigs, A Step by Step Guide to a Profitable Side Business. This Writer’s Life(TWL)-Let’s start with you telling everyone about yourself and how you got interested in side gigs? Erin Mahoney (EM)-By education and training,…
Despite being motivated are you still struggling with your writing? Recently, I’ve had a few private students who are very motivated but for some reason, they weren’t getting results. In fact, it’s one of the reasons, they asked me to coach them. During our weekly check in call, they’ve both reported they’ve written nothing, zero,…
Are you thinking about starting a side gig or do you already have one? Are you using your skill as a writer for your side hustle? I can’t think of a better way to make some extra cash each week than putting your talent for writing to good use. These can be short pieces for…
One of the key elements to being a successful freelance writing is finding consistent work. When I started out, I’d spend a few hours a day researching markets, trying to figure out who hired freelance writers and what looked like a good match. Fast forward to today, and I think it’s gotten a little easier…
I just finished going through today’s e-mails and saw four writing opportunities I thought I’d pass onto you- First one is a short story contest at The Writer…also check out their other contests too- https://www.writermag.com/contests/ Second one is over at Chicken Soup for the Soul. They’re looking for stories about angels…this isn’t a fiction market….
Do you study trends? I just finished writing a post over at my other site about how being a trend watcher or a future thinker can help you figure out how to make money. As I was writing it, I thought, this is probably a great topic for the audience at TWL too. I don’t…
Remember me telling you about the Content Creation Collection back in March? I’m excited to announce that if you have a blog or are an entrepreneur including being a self publisher, you’re getting a second chance to grab a collaboration of 48 product creators including my own- Self Publishing Toolkit Grab the Content Creation Collection…
What separates the writer who actually finishes writing a book to the person who just dreams about it? It’s mindset… A few months ago, I decided to start a new exercise routine. I’ve tried to do that many times before and for one reason or another, I’ve given up after a week or two. Good…
Wondering why your short story keeps getting rejected? Or maybe what you thought was the perfect idea for a publication still got a no, not for us response? It could be that you’re writing before you research. This was huge mistake I made and had I known about this easy to remember tip, I know…