Writing tip - earn while you learn

by angela.booth on July 20, 2008

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I love working with my Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) students.

They’re earning while they learn, and I get great comments every day, telling me that the training has helped them more than any other other class they’ve ever taken.

Now, whether you’re a SYWON subscriber or not, here’s a tip which will help you with everything you write: make money while you learn.

When you’re a beginner, you have a lot of information to share. You can be a beginning student, parent, photographer, writer - as a beginner you have a big advantage over someone who already knows what you’re learning when it comes to writing about it. You know exactly what it’s like to be a beginner.

As you become an expert, you can’t get that beginning mind state back, no matter how much you want to.

So I urge you to USE whatever you’re learning, and write about it.

“THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT” was a great example of this. Julie Powell wrote about learning to cook with Julia Child on a blog, which became a bestselling book -

she attempted to cook her way through Child’s landmark 1961 cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1.”

Powell was blogging about the experience when she was plucked from obscurity and given a book deal for “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.” The name is sort of misleading, because Powell’s 9-by-12 kitchen is rather large — by New York standards.

So what are you learning? Why not write about it?

Start a blog - a blog is a commitment, and as you get readers, they’ll inspire you and motivate you.

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