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The most important step to achieving your dreams.

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How to Make a Writing Group Work for You

by Chloe Trogden

Writing groups can be incredibly effective tools for helping you take your writing to the next level. Or they can be an incredible waste of time and leave you feeling frustrated and ready to give up. In order to make writing groups work for you, you need to make some informed choices.

Here are a few tips for using writing groups to help make your writing the best it can be and reach your writing goals:

1. Find like-minded participants.

First off, everyone has to be on the same pa...

5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Writing a Book

by Brian Klems (@BrianKlems)

When writing my book, Oh Boy, You’re Having a Girl:A Dad’s Survival Guide to Raising Daughters, I ran into a lot of roadblocks. I’d like to place the blame elsewhere, but the truth is, they were my fault (Okay, I’ll place part of the blame on TBS for airing all those reruns of “Scrubs” — seriously, I just can’t get enough of that show). Most of the roadblocks, though, were from avoidable mistakes I made during the writing process. Thankfully, now I know better.

To h...

How the DIY Writing Newsletter Helped Me Become a Local Celebrity

Lauren’s new YA novel

by Lauren Tharp (@LittleZotzWrite)

I first stumbled upon DIY Writing early this year when I came here to grab my copy of A Writer’s Bucket List (back when it wasn’t free, mind you — You readers today are so lucky!)

I thought the book was great (Seriously, I can’t believe she’s giving it away for free now). Little did I know that my initial purchase would lead to so much more…

How the DIY Writing Newsletter Helped Me Become a Local Celebrity

Guess what?

I’m a newly-published YA...

5 Steps to Finding Your First Freelance Client

From Dana:This is a guest post from Jennifer Dunn.JenniferownsSocial Street Mediaand specializes in blogging and content marketing for clients in the tech and finance sectors, and brings you this post on behalf ofWePay. She prides herself on learning something new everyday.

by Jennifer Dunn (@JennEscalona)

Starting a freelance career is fun, exhilarating — and a little frustrating. If you have no idea how to find your first client, you may start to wonder why you started this venture in the fir...

Get 6 Free Ebooks When You Buy ‘A Writer’s Bucket List’ for Kindle This Week!

The headline pretty much gives it all away today, but here are the promo-y details:

A Writer’s Bucket List is now available for Kindle!

You can still get the PDF of the book free, but if you want something easier to read on your Kindle (or you just wanna say, “Hey, thanks for the book, Dana. Have some money for groceries.”), you can get it at Amazon for just $4.95. Because I’m aiming for a big launch this week to prod Amazon’s robots and get noticed, we’re having some more launch week fun, and...

The Introverted Writer and Her Labels

From Dana:This is a guest post by C. Hope Clark, editor of FundsforWriters.com and author of The Carolina Slade Mystery Series booksLowcountry Bribe and forthcoming Tidewater Murder.She is also author of the popular books for writers, The Shy Writer and The Shy Writer Reborn.She has written for Writer’s Market, Guide to Literary Agents, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer Magazine. Hope’s work has inspired me since early on in this journey, and I’m honored to welcome her today to DIY Writing!

by C...

Breaking Down the Barriers that Hold You Back

From Dana:This is a guest post from Lisa Landtroop. Lisa is a writer, mother, wife, grandmother, Tae Kwon Do student, and entrepreneur. She blogs about taking back your life from those things (or people) that hold you back at Take Your Life Back. Check out her life-changing course about taking your life back from the insanity you’ve allowed to steal it from you in the first place. Lisa and I connected as co-contributors to eBooks Suck! (but they don’t have to): The Most Comprehensive Guide to...

When It’s Time to Get Selfish with Your Writing Dream

As I watched sales trickle in during Launch Week for A Writer’s Bucket List, I felt like I was livin’ The Dream — I made enough that week to pay rent for three months (my rent isreally low, not a huge brag). What a rush it was to create something purely of my imagination and reap rewards large enough to live on, rather than scrape together client work and add on hours to make extra money!

Yet, I realized something as I counted sales and fantasized about telling my clients to shove their work u...

If You Want to Be a Writer

Here’s the thing about making a living doing what you love: You’re going to have to work yourass off to be successful. Know that going in, and know that the reward isso worth it.

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