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,…
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Step Outside Your Writing Comfort Zone
All too often we get into a comfortable zone. It’s safe, it’s familiar, and why not you say, after all, we’ve worked years just to get to this point. However, in every writer’s life, comes the time when you have to step outside that zone. Venture into territory unknown and yes, it’s sometimes scary. A…
Hi Susan-To Blog or Not, That is the Question
Time for another Hi Susan question. This one came from Cameron, who asked Do you think it’s essential that an author have a blog they consistently post to? I’ve been blogging for about 15 years and the landscape has certainly changed. I started out blogging about saving money not writing, but it did,…
Pick Your Words Carefully
Last month while I was checking the weather forecast, extremely cold was written for one day, frigid the next. As a writer, words fascinate me. The choice of words my fellow authors pick intrigue me. As in the case of whoever write this forecast. What’s the difference between extremely cold and frigid? According my dictionary,…