Confession Time: I worked a little yesterday. Yea, I know. Yesterday was the post about taking time away. I have a good excuse: I took off early on Friday. And I’d forgotten to schedule this week’s posts. So at 6:45 am on a holiday, I was here making sure this post would be waiting for…
Author: lwidmer
Writers Worth: Fear Not Your Time Away
Some lessons are easy to adopt. Today is one of those lessons. Today’s Marketing Move: Take Time Off Seriously, it’s Memorial Day. If you’re working, stop it right now. Who cares if you have deadlines? Work late tomorrow. Today, don’t be afraid to walk away from the lists and the deadlines and the research. Today…
Writers Worth: Coming Out of the Shadows
This post is proof that Emily Montgomery knows how to conquer fear. I’d read a post on Devon Ellington’s Biblio Paradise last week. A great post. Emily’s post (her first, it seems). I sent a quick email to Devon — would Emily contribute here? The next day, Emily’s first email to me came in. In…
Writers Worth: When Fear Has Many Faces
Jenn Mattern is one of the most fearless people I know. She’s an aggressive marketer, planner, and writer. I don’t know a time since I’ve known her that Jenn hasn’t had several projects going on at once. Her whiteboards in her office (she has a few) scare the hell out of me. They’re loaded with…
Writers Worth: Fear Without Apology
There’s an honesty about Yolander Prinzel that is what I would call refreshingly disturbing. It’s refreshing because she gives you her genuine feelings. It’s disturbing because her words often make you face the very shit you’ve been trying to cover and hide from. I adore Yo because she’s never afraid to say what she’s thinking,…
Writers Worth: When Fear is Your Friend
Join us on Twitter today at Noon ET for the second Writers Worth Month chat – Use hashtag #WWMchat to take part! Reasons why I adore Paula Hendrickson: She showed up one day and made friends quickly She volunteered to run this blog when a liver surgery sent me into a nine-day hospital stay She…
Writers Worth: Fear of Taking it Seriously
I need to stay off writers’ forums. A recent conversation that started seriously enough turned ridiculous far too quickly. The guy asked a serious question: How do you know if freelance is your choice? Facing a full-time offer, he was having second thoughts about taking that offer. While right there he’s pretty much answered his…
Writers Worth: Kicking First
I’m a Sharon Hurley Hall fan. In fact, I sort of stalked Sharon for years on social media. I was there, hanging in the background, hoping to get a chance to reach out. Why I was nervous about saying hello is beyond me, and now that I know Sharon, I realize how silly it was…
Writers Worth: Is Fear Getting in the Way of Your Worth?
If life gives us a do-over, I would want to come back as Emily Fowler. She’s vegan (okay, I’m vegetarian — close). She’s tattooed (I’m too fickle to get a tattoo — what if I change my mind?). She’s pink-haired (this week?). She’s about to be a new mom. And she’s British. Geezuz, do some…
Writers Worth: Removing the Mind-Killer from Client Relations
Some friendships are purely coincidental. Such is the friendship that Dana Ford and I share. A technical writer by day, he dons the garb of Super Friend in his off-peak hours. We bonded over fathers and loss. We also bonded over all sports Pittsburgh-related, sharing snippets of “Can you believe that call?” or “Where was…